Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
Chico Díaz
as Ricardo Reis
Victoria Guerra
as Marcenda
Catarina Wallenstein
as Lídia
Luís Lima Barreto
as Fernando Pessoa
Dinarte Branco
as Colega Dirigente
João Barbosa
as Victor
Márcia Breia
as Vizinha 1
Luísa Cruz
as Vizinha 2
Gustavo Vargas
as Rámon
Luís Lucas
as Velho 1
Ricardo Aibéo
as Dirigente Sindical
Marcello Urgeghe
as Doctor
