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PORTUGUESE AFRICA, 1973. Slowly, we have plenty of time: the words of the Second Lieutenant to the small band of soldiers he commands. A land mine exploding on the forest track, the patrol lost in the forest. The death of a soldier, shots in the night. Involved in a war in which the enemy is never seen, the mud-splattered soldiers methodically carry out the final pilgrimage without bitterness or glory, the tame farewell of a generation to five centuries of Portuguese presence in Africa: a story of war.
PORTUGAL, 1985. Raul and Piedade, small farmers from Minho, go to visit Lisbon. They see Alexandre, their second son, again and visit Laura, the widow of their first son killed twelve years before in the war in Africa. The family is together again but it will never be even a shadow of what it was before. Marked by time, the memory that once united them is now only pain and silence. Life is like that, according to the personalities involved. They are not bitter, but accept things as they are and smile. Raul and Piedade go back to their home in the north, but Laura and Alexandre have nowhere to return to: a story of peace.

Um.Adeus.Portugues.1986.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French

The post João Botelho – Um Adeus Português AKA A Portuguese Farewell (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a ’60s radical turned doctor in exile.

Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease’s real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.

	
Docs.Kingdom.1988.576p.AAC.1.0.x264-SaL.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 33 min
Size: 	3.14 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/BE7EF488A92FAA6/Docs.Kingdom.1988.576p.AAC.1.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

The post Robert Kramer – Doc’s Kingdom (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Julio, aged nineteen, has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives there in a poor area with his uncle Raul and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop, he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful and modern and Julio falls for her.

1.03GB | 1h 27mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/BAA950E98969F1A/The_Green_Years.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Paulo Rocha – Os Verdes Anos AKA The Green Years (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
This quirky Portuguese comedy won a silver lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. The story concerns the irrepressible Joao de Deus (played by the director, Joao Cesar Monteiro), an ill-kempt, lusty and none-too-honest resident of Violeta’s boarding house, which happens to have yellow walls. Joao, who has no visible means of support, is in his fifties, and is not above cadging money from his 70 year old mother, who still works as a cleaning lady. He has a wistful sort of lust for the young ladies in the boarding house, and gets a kind of thrill when he is permitted to take a bath in their used water. He strikes up a friendship with a slightly stupid girl who is a mite promiscuous, and even has a brief sexual encounter with her himself. Many slightly “off” encounters occur during the remainder of the film, but despite Joao’s potentially defeating setback near the end, it appears that it won’t be long before he’s back in action.

Review:
The impoverished tenant of a Lisbon boarding-house, João de Deus (played to perfection by the writer/director) is one of the great miseries of the movies. He muses, in a dispassionate but doomy voice-over, on death, illness, solitude, and the bedbugs that make a nightly attack on his testicles. As the seedy, sexually frustrated, but occasionally kindly protagonist proceeds towards a pathetic, cracked assault on his harridan landlady’s daughter, it’s hard to know whether to laugh, weep or simply slit your wrists. In the end, it’s that wry, detached sense of comic absurdity that saves the film from plunging into maudlin miserabilism. Using long, often static takes, an elliptical narrative, and stark but stylish compositions, Monteiro sidesteps psychodrama to produce something altogether cooler, more thought-provoking, and more perverse. The film makes its slow way towards the appallingly run-down mental hospital of the title, and a denouement as fantastic as it is subversive. A fascinating, quietly caustic critique of the outmoded mores of Portugal’s petite bourgeoisie.

— TimeOut.

Recordacoes.da.Casa.Amarela.1989.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 2 min
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https://nitro.download/view/EFFEC1606E74A50/Recordacoes.da.Casa.Amarela.1989.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English, French, Italian, Portuguese

The post João César Monteiro – Recordações da Casa Amarela AKA Recollections of the Yellow House (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.