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Trails

Directed by João César Monteiro
1978    2hDrama, Fantasy
7.27.2
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For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glistening sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro's mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.

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Cast of Trails

  • Carmen DuarteBranca-Flor
  • Manuela de FreitasAtena
  • Virgilio BrancoThe Devil
  • Luís de Sousa CostaThe Father
  • Francisco DominguesThe Storyteller
  • Margarida GilThe Girl / The Devil's Woman
  • Sílvia Gomes FerreiraThe Young Creature of the Elms and Waters
  • João GuedesThe Lord of the Lands
  • António MendesThe Wanderer / The Shepherd
  • João César MonteiroThe Monk / The Boss of the Thieves / Director / Screenplay / Editor
  • Leonor SeixasThe 1st Daughter of the Devil
  • MyriamThe 2nd Daughter of the Devil
  • Adília MartinsThe Woman Who Grinds the Earth
  • Ifigenia de CarvalhoThe Woman Covering the Child
  • Minervina ChapanitoCoryphaeus
  • Pedro Gomes FerreiraKid Bathing
  • Madalena BarbosaThe Lord of the Lands' Wife
  • Antônio Eugênio MatosThe Eldest Son of the Lord of the Lands
  • Alexandra BarbosaThe Youngest Daughter of the Lord of the Lands
  • Miguel João RavasqueiraThe Charioteer

Trails Trivia

Trails was released on May 19, 1978.

Trails was directed by João César Monteiro.

Trails has a runtime of 2 hr.

Trails was produced by Henrique Espírito Santo.

The key characters in Trails are Branca-Flor (Carmen Duarte), Atena (Manuela de Freitas), The Devil (Virgilio Branco).

Trails is a Drama, Fantasy film.

Trails has an audience rating of 7.2 out of 10.

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