Mário Viegas
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santarém, Portugal
Birthday: November 10, 1948
Deathday: April 01, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Divine Comedy
Overview: In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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The Killers
Overview: "Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Rosa Negra
Overview: Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-06-25
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Fado Lusitano
Overview: Portugal feels himself a little country in the tail of Europe. Has a wandering heart, an adventurous spirit, an embittered soul and an obedient body.
Genres: Animation History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Ballad of Dog Beach
Overview: In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-03-12
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No Trace of Sin
Overview: A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
Overview: The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-05-09
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Your Neighbour's Wife
Overview: Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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The Jew
Overview: The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-16
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Os Cornos de Cronos
Overview: A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-05-04
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Pereira Declares
Overview: Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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Repórter X
Overview: A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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Dificuldade de Governar
Overview: Animation of Bertolt Brecht's namesake poem recited by Mario Viegas
Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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O Funeral do Patrão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-01
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O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Overview: O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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The Fault
Overview: Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the killing of two men (a soldier and a native) by his sounding of the alarm during one given night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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