Longe da Vista (1999)
1h 22m
Running Time
April 2, 1999Release Date
Plot.
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
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Cast & Crew.

Canto e Castro
Eugénio

Francisco Nascimento
Vasco

Henrique Viana
Abel

Zita Duarte
Idalina

Rita Blanco
Rute

Rogério Samora
Warden

José Mora Ramos
Chief Guard

Heitor Lourenço
Guard #1

José Pinto
Barbas

Fernando Heitor
Paramedic

Catarina Furtado
Visitor

Paulo Oom
Porter

Filipe Cochofel
Young Prisoner

Mário Moutinho
Paramedic 1

Luís Lucas
Doctor

Miguel Hurst
Prisoner in Hospital

Luís Alberto
Prisioneiro

Natália Luiza
Juíza

Paulo Filipe
Screenplay

Laurent Machuel
Director of Photography

João Mário Grilo
Screenplay / Director

Paulo Branco
Producer

Riccardo Del Fra
Music

Jean Dubreuil
Editor / Sound Editor

Antro
Casting

Isabel Favila
Costume Design / Production Design

Gérard Rousseau
Sound Mixer

Francisco Veloso
Sound Director

Nelson Traquina

António Calvário
Details.
This Movie Is About.
prison
letter
impostor
stabbing
telephone sex
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