Pele (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pele |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fernando Vendrell |
| script |
Carla Baptista Henrique Galvão |
| production | Catarina Fortes |
| music |
JP Simões Sérgio Costa |
| camera | Mario Masini |
| cut | José Nascimento |
| occupation | |
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Pele ( dt. : Skin ) is a Portuguese film directed by Fernando Vendrell in 2006.
action
Olga lives in Portugal during the repressive Estado Novo regime and its Portuguese colonial war in the early 1970s. She is 23 years old, from a very rich and respected family and is about to graduate from university. At the university she is the model student of her professor. She is the result of her father Alexandre's sexual adventure in Angola . He left Olga in the care of his ex-wife in Lisbon and has lived in Angola for 20 years.
Olga and her father hardly know each other when he surprisingly returns. Olga, who suffers from not knowing anything about her mother and who is often exposed to hidden racism because of the color of her skin, confronts the returned father, as does the loyal foster mother, with accusations both of her skin color and of her own unknown Mother related. Olga tries to break out by increasingly distancing herself from her father and foster mother and seeking distraction in excesses, up to a stroke of fate. Eventually she finds a way out in the theater. Through acting and dealing with people who do not adhere to social conventions and prejudices, she comes to inner peace and slowly begins to reconcile with her life situation.
reception
The film is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name from 1957 by Salazar opponent Henrique Galvão (1895–1970). Both the rigid social grievances in Portugal during the dictatorship and the subliminal racist and social discrimination on the part of the upper class are discussed in the film. Although this film is set exclusively in Portugal, it is yet another work by the director who deals with Portuguese-speaking Africa and the complex, close relationships between him and Portugal.
The film has screened at various festivals including the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the IndieLisboa . It was a relatively successful film in the small Portuguese market and was released on DVD in 2011.
Web links
- Pele in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ DVD case, Bosque Secreto, Lisbon 2011
- ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed July 29, 2012