1986-09-25 • 1h 31m

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Directors

Manoel de Oliveira

Writters

José Régio, Jacques Parsi

Editors

José Régio, Jacques Parsi, Rudolfo Wedeles