The Sound of the Shaking Earth

Overview

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 22, 1990

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken languages

Portuguese

Countries

Portugal

Production

RTP,Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC),Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,Inforfilmes

Cast

Manuela de Freitas,Sara Marques,Conceição Guerra,Jean-Pierre Tailhade,Milú,Miguel Simão,Francisco Marinho,José Mário Branco,João Bénard da Costa,Paulo Rochaand 6 more

Director

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Writer

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cinematography

Acácio de Almeida

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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