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Vale Abraão (1993)
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1 September 1993 (France) morePlot:
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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A Portuguese modern Madame Bovary moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Leonor Silveira | ... | Ema Cardeano Paiva |
| Cécile Sanz de Alba | ... | Ema (young) |
| Luís Miguel Cintra | ... | Carlo Paiva |
| Ruy de Carvalho | ... | Paulino Cardeano |
| Luís Lima Barreto | ... | Pedro Luminares |
| Micheline Larpin | ... | Simona |
| Diogo Dória | ... | Fernando Osorio |
| José Pinto | ... | Caires |
| Filipe Cochofel | ... | Fortunato |
| João Perry | ... | Pedro Dossem |
| Glória de Matos | ... | Maria do Loreto |
| António Reis | ... | Semblano |
| Isabel Ruth | ... | Ritinha |
| Dina Treno | ... | Branca |
| Dalila Carmo | ... | Marina (as Dalila Carmo e Sousa) |
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Abraham Valley (International: English title)Abraham's Valley (International: English title)
Val Abraham (France)
Valley of Abraham (USA) (festival title)
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187 min | Portugal:203 min (director's cut)Language:
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Well the resemblance of the plot with the Flaubert's novel is very superficial after all. This is much more than a story of bourgeois adultery. It's the story of an intelligent and sensitive young woman brought up in the frame of the society of mid-20th century northern Portugal in an atmosphere of bigotry and social stagnation who marries a man she does not love and whose life has no way out. The plot develops itself in old rural mansions under the eyes of a silent witness, the deaf-and-dumb servant Ritinha who sees everything and understands everything without speaking or intervening by any means but forming with Ema the main character, a strong union of love and mutual understanding. The visual images develop themselves in a slow poetic movement which is Oliveira's favourite. The scenery however, is beautifully located in the Portuguese river Douro one of the most beautiful rivers in the world.