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"I am an unlikely director because, as O’Neill would have said, I am where I shouldn’t have been. Nothing in my life destined me to be a filmmaker. I came from a village, fleeing, going through several adventures in and out of Lisbon. In fact, I was cut out to be a peasant from Várzea, someone who works the earth... but I ended up working with images and sound." We accompany Fernando Lopes back to his roots: on the one hand, the earth, the Várzea of his childhood; on the other, the movies, the paroxysms of New Portuguese Cinema and the idealistic desire to change the world.

Portugal - 2008 - 1 h 34 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 • PAL - Colour

Director João Lopes Writer João Lopes Camera Rui Poças Sound Pedro Melo

Production Midas Filmes, Praça de São Paulo, Nº19, 2º Esq, 1200-425 Lisbonne, Portugal Tél : +351 21 347 9088 Fax : +351 21 347 9088 E-mail : midas@midas-filmes.pt

Sales Abril Filmes, Fabienne Martinot, Praça de São Paulo, N°19, 2° Esq, 1200 245 Lisbonne, Portugal Tél : +351 91 030 2012 Fax : +351 21 347 9088 E-mail : abril@abril-filmes.pt