Pedro Só
| Movie | |
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| German title | - |
| Original title | Pedro Só |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfredo Tropa |
| script | Alfredo Tropa |
| production | João Martos Silva |
| music | Manuel Freire |
| camera | Elso Roque |
| cut | Teresa Olga |
| occupation | |
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Pedro Só (Eng .: Nur Peter ) is a film by the Portuguese director Alfredo Tropa from 1972 (b / w, 74 min.). Fernando Assis Pacheco's script is based on the novel Romance de Um Vagabundo . Alfredo Tropa achieved a respectable success with Pedro Só , and he won a critic's award at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid film festival .
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Shot under difficult conditions in the then still underdeveloped region of Trás-os-Montes (Eng .: Behind-the-Mountains) in north-east Portugal, the black and white film tells the story of the agricultural worker Pedro. He gets into a family quarrel and kills a man. Desperate, he flees from his persecutors and from his guilty conscience alike. But although he continues to decline socially and has dealings with vile drifters, in contrast to his new friends he still retains some dignity. After a few incidents, he believes that his love for the prostitute Clara has broken his loneliness. But he returns to his hometown and realizes that nothing has changed in all these years, and he comes to a tragic end.
Reviews
The film is controversial among critics. He belongs to the generation of new Portuguese films ( Novo Cinema ), which became possible with the beginning of the film engagement of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian .
On the one hand, it is said to have weaknesses such as its hesitant development. On the other hand, he is given some credit. So does Pedro Só not an urban, middle-class milieu of most films of his generation, but also shows the harsh reality of farm workers in the most remote, unterentwickeltesten region of the country. The residents of the village of Múrias ( Mirandela district ) take an active part in the film and give the film its authenticity. The acting performances and the soundtrack received critical acclaim, and the film was given narrative power. Only after him did more solid films with similar subjects emerge , for example Veredas by João César Monteiro .
Pedro Só may not be the best example, but he is a good representative for Novo Cinema in Portugal since the early 1960s. Despite some weaknesses, the film convinces with its epic power. With music by Manuel Freire , the actor António Montez as Pedro and the singer and actress Ermelinda Duarte as Clara in the lead roles, the film has now become a fixture in the history of Portuguese film before the Carnation Revolution .
Literature evidence
- Jorge Leitão Ramos "Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962 - 1988" 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989 (page 389/390)
- Supplement to the DVD (Costa do Castelo Filmes, Lisbon 2003)