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Morning Undersea (Manhã Submersa)

Γερμανικά Τίτλος: Versunkener Morgen
Γαλλικά Τίτλος: Les brumes de l’Aube
Ισπανικά Τίτλος: Mañana sumergida
Ρωσική τίτλος: Утренний туман
Πρωτότυπος τίτλος: Manhã Submersa

Παραλλαγές εναλλακτικών τίτλων:
Manha submersa / Morning mist / Misty Morning / Mañana brumosa

Jugenddrama – Portugal
Έτος παραγωγής: 1978
Διάρκεια: 127 λεπτά

Σκηνοθεσία: Lauro António
Σεναριογράφος: Lauro António, Vergilio Ferreira
Κάμερα: Elso Roque
Μουσική: Giuseppe Verdi

Υπόθεση:

Estefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar’s rector accept it, and António accepts it – if not for piety, for abeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.

Based on an autobiography by Vergilio Ferreira that was banned during Salazar’s dictatorship in Portugal (1945-1968), this compelling drama features the forced confinement of a 12-year-old boy in a seminary. When a patroness chooses to send Antonio to a seminary to be trained as a priest for the village, he has nothing to say about it. His widowed mother needs him to help her with the other children, his family is impoverished, and he has no interest in being a priest, but none of this matters. Once in the seminary, he makes friends with another boy in the same situation, and they both vow to leave within the year. Increasing misfortune awaits Antonio, but when tragedy strikes before the year is up he begins to see how he can escape for good.

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