Duration: 130min

Capacity: 59

M/12

Word and Utopia, a story told by Manoel de Oliveira about Padre António Vieira, a jesuit priest from the 1600s, was filmed in Brazil, Portugal and Rome, places where the Priest went. Having been a visionary, a critic, but not always understood by the church, he was a friend and confidant to King John IV, he resisted the Inquisition and preached for the freedom of the Amerindians and the slaves at the time of the Portuguese colonization. He was a man wth a gift for wirds that fought for an utopia: the myth of the Fifth Empire.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira

Production: Paulo Branco

Script: Manoel de Oliveira, com base na vida e obra do Padre António Vieira

Historic and Literary Collaboration: Pe. João Marques

Cinematography: Renato Berta

Editing: Valérie Loiseleux

Art Direction: Rui Alves

Costume: Isabel Branco

Sound Directing: Henri Maïkoff

Performers: Lima Duarte (Pe. António Vieira, em velho), Luis Miguel Cintra (Pe. António Vieira na

maturidade), Ricardo Trêpa (Pe. António Vieira, em jovem), Miguel Guilherme (Pe. José Soares),

Leonor Silveira (Rainha Cristina da Suécia), Renato de Carmine (Pe. Jeronimo Cattaneo), Diogo Dória

(Inquisidor Mor), Paulo Matos (Notário), António Reis (Promotor de Justiça), Canto e Castro

(Governador), José Pinto (Provincial da Companhia de Jesus), José Manuel Mendes (Inquisidor Geral),

Rogério Vieira (D. João IV), Duarte de Almeida (Papa Clemente XII), Ronaldo Bonacchi (Pe. Bonucci),

Rogério Samora (Provincial), Luís Lima Barreto (Pe. Pacheco), Rui Luís (Núncio), Manoel de Oliveira

(Padre, portador da última mensagem)

Produtor: Madragoa Filmes, RTP (Portugal), Gemini Films (França), Plateau Produções (Brasil), Wanda

Films (Espanha)

Film Copy: 35mm, cor, a exibir em formato DCP

Length: 130 minutos

Worldwide Premiere: Venice International Festival, September 1st 2000