A Divina Comédia (1991)

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Country: France, Portugal, Switzerland
Genres: Drama
Release: 1991-10-11
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writers: Manoel de Oliveira , Fyodor Dostoevsky , José Régio , Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: Portuguese
Stars: Maria de Medeiros , Miguel Guilherme , Luís Miguel Cintra , Mário Viegas , Leonor Silveira , Diogo Dória , Paulo Matos , José Wallenstein , Ruy Furtado , Carlos Gomes
Runtime: 140 min
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
AKA: İlahi Komedi (Turkey) , La divine comédie (France, French Republic) , Die göttliche Komödie (Germany) , A Divina Comédia , La divina commedia (Italy) , Boska komedia (Poland) , A Divina Comédia (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , 神曲 (Japan) , The Divine Comedy
Plot: All of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious delusions of one kind or another -- even the cynic who denies the value of any religions at all. One couple re-enacts the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and then the woman who played at being Eve plays at being St. Teresa de Avila. Another man thinks he's a character from a Dostoyevsky novel, and yet another claims to have in his possession a fifth gospel from the Bible. Everyone has a point of view and is not shy about stating it, defending it in debate with the others with great sincerity, though with very little elegance or wit.
IMDB:tt0101739