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.
José Mário Branco
as Alberto
Manuela de Freitas
as Isabel
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
as Luciano
Sara Marques
as Girl
Miguel Simão
as Cipriana
Miguel Simão
as Cipriano
Jean-Pierre Tailhade
as Jean-Pierre
Conceição Guerra
as Maria
Paulo Rocha
as Hostel Doorman
Francisco Marinho
as Sailor
Paulo Sousa Rocha
as Books Salesman
Carolina Viana
as Goddaughter
