Matar Saudades (1988)
1h 25m
Running Time
January 1, 1988Release Date
Plot.
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ..
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Cast & Crew.
Rogério Samora
Abel
Teresa Madruga
Teresa
Pedro Efe
Pedro
Eunice Muñoz
Grandmother
Alexandre de Sousa
Heliodoro
João Cabral
Pedro
Fernando Lopes
Director
Manuel Cavaco
Vasco
Details.
Wiki.
Fernando Lopes wrote and directed Killing Saudades. A man emigrates to France and returns to his transmontane village prepared for revenge. The film was mostly shot in the village. Killing Saudades was shown in Portugal.