Portugal, May, 1958. The General Humberto Delgado dares the Salazar's dictatorship in the presidential elections. At the same time, in a small village deep in the country, a seamstress swallows a pin. This is the story of how the seamstress got rid of the pin, or maybe the story of how Salazar was pinched by Delgado.
Festivals
X International Short-Film Festival of Vila do Conde; International Cinema Festival of Kiev
Short Feature Film
Fiction
27'
Colour
Betacam
Title
The Seamstress that Swallowed a Pin, 2002
A Costureirinha que Engoliu um Alfinete
Director
Rita Palma
Production
Contracosta Produções
Co-Production
RTP
Cast
Maria Emília Correia
João Maria Pinto
Fernando Heitor