Ventura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Male
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Colossal Youth
Overview: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-23
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The State of the World
Overview: An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-06-16
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Our Man
Overview: O Nosso Homem (Our Man) is a short variation in the line of the trilogy Pedro Costa has devoted to the habitants of the Fontainhas quarter, which has been destroyed in the meantime. It can be considered as a sort of appendix to the third part, Juventude en Marcha (Colossal Youth), in which the hero, Ventura, reappears as one of the four characters of this dialogue of hopelessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-05
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Memories
Overview: Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, and the French filmmaker Eugène Green participated in this project.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Historic Centre
Overview: Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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Sweet Exorcist
Overview: A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Horse Money
Overview: While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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Tarrafal
Overview: Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-24
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The Rabbit Hunters
Overview: Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-01
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Vitalina Varela
Overview: A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-07
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