May 05, 1997
95 min
Full-HD

Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

Category

Drama

Country

France Portugal

Companies

Gemini Films Madragoa Filmes

Marcello Mastroianni

Manoel

Jean-Yves Gautier

Afonso

Leonor Silveira

Judite

Diogo Dória

Duarte

Manoel de Oliveira

Driver

Isabel de Castro

Maria Afonso

Isabel Ruth

Olga

Cécile Sanz de Alba

Cristina

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