Cântico Final (1975)

8.0/10 110 min Drama

Overview

Mário Gonçalves, a high school teacher threatened with death due to cancer, spends the last days of his life in the village where he was born, in the heart of Serra da Estrela. There, he expresses his talent as a painter in the intimate decoration of an abandoned chapel. This is also the twilight hour of rebellious memories: love and precariousness, choices and contingency, perennial dissatisfaction...

Cast

Ruy de Carvalho

Mário Gonçalves

Ana Zanatti

Guida

Benjamim Falcão

Rebelo

Simone de Oliveira

Paula

Rui Luís

Curado Ribeiro

Dr. Cipriano

Varela Silva

Dr. Beirão

Maria Olguim

D. Ana

João de Carvalho

Priest

Maria Schultz

Mário's mother

David Silva

Félix

João Maria Tudela

Matos

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