
SINTRA’S ROAD
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias".
Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case?
This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel played out between Sintra and Malta.
Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition, intrigue eludes evidence and everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
"Sintra’s Road" defies all conventions – it is a bitter comedy of manners and a biting critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century, and why not of today’s society.
Director
Jorge Paixão da Costa
Drama/Comedy
99’
Colour
Betacam
Portugal
2007
Title
O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra, 2007
Production
Animatógrafo II
Filmes de Fundo
Cast
José Pedro Vasconcelos
James Weber Brown
António Pedro Cerdeira
Ivo Canelas
Bruna Di Tullio
Rogério Samora Giselle Itiê
Flávio Galvão
Nicolau Breyner
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