The secrets of Lisbon

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Movie
German title The secrets of Lisbon
Original title Mistérios de Lisboa
Country of production Portugal , France
original language Portuguese , French , English
Publishing year 2010
length 312 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Raul Ruiz
script Carlos Saboga , Camilo Castelo Branco
production Paulo Branco
music Jorge Arriagada , Luís de Freitas Branco
camera André Szankowski
cut Valeria Sarmiento
occupation

The Secrets of Lisbon is a Portuguese - French feature film from the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz from 2010 . A six-part television series was also produced from it.

The film is based on the story of the same name by the Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890).

action

The orphan boy Pedro lived in a joyless Catholic boarding school in Lisbon at the beginning of the 19th century . He doesn't know anything about his origins and doesn't even have a surname. One day, boarding school director Father Dinis confesses to him that his mother is alive and that the Countess (Portuguese: Condessa) is Angela de Lima. In search of his roots, Pedro gets into the family entanglements of his oppressed mother and thus into the scheming world of the nobles and aristocrats .

production

The European auteur film was shot between October 2009 and January 2010 in Óbidos , in the Sintra district and other locations around the Portuguese capital, Lisbon . The production cost was about $ 2.5 million. In the US alone, the film grossed over a million dollars at the box office.

It then appeared as a six-part television series, now also in German-language synchronization by the station Arte .

A number of well-known actors from Portuguese cinema and French film can be seen as leading and supporting roles , including the renowned Portuguese character actor Adriano Luz and the actresses Maria João Bastos from Portugal and Clotilde Hesme from France.

reception

The film premiered on September 12, 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival . Most of the time, he was received very positively by the critics, especially for his strong pictures, the detailed backdrops and costumes, and his acting performances.

The work was shown at a number of film festivals , such as the New York Film Festival 2010 and the Torino Film Festival . He received a number of awards, including the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards . He was u. a. Awarded the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film and the Best Foreign Language Film at the Satellite Awards 2011 in Los Angeles and won the Best Director award at the São Paulo International Film Festival .

In 2012 the film and the television series were released on DVD and Blu-ray in several countries, including Germany.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US box office numbers on the film's page in the Internet Movie Database , accessed July 22, 2016
  2. ^ Collection of reviews and press articles about The Secrets of Lisbon on the film's website (English, Portuguese and French), accessed on July 22, 2016
  3. ^ Web page with the awards for the film in the Internet Movie Database, accessed on July 22, 2016
  4. ↑ Website for the German DVD release from the rental company Capelight, accessed on July 22, 2016