Mário Viegas

Mário Viegas

Born: November 10, 1948
Died: April 1, 1996
in Santarém, Portugal

Movies for Mário Viegas...

The Jew
Title: The Jew
Released: January 16, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
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Pereira Declares
Title: Pereira Declares
Character: Newspaper editor
Released: April 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
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Title: Zona+
Character: Próprio
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
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Fado Lusitano
Title: Fado Lusitano
Character: narrator
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Portugal feels himself a little country in the tail of Europe. Has a wandering heart, an adventurous spirit, an embittered soul and an obedient body.
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Rosa Negra
Title: Rosa Negra
Character: Barriga d'Água
Released: June 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...
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Title: Marina, Marina
Character: Explicador
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: TV
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The Divine Comedy
Title: The Divine Comedy
Character: Philosopher
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
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Title: Por Mares Nunca Dantes Navegados
Released: September 19, 1991
Type: TV
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Os Cornos de Cronos
Title: Os Cornos de Cronos
Character: Professor Álvaro
Released: May 4, 1991
Type: Movie
A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl.
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Your Neighbour's Wife
Title: Your Neighbour's Wife
Character: Henrique
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.
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Repórter X
Title: Repórter X
Character: Sete Línguas
Released: May 22, 1987
Type: Movie
A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
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Balada da Praia dos Cães
Title: Balada da Praia dos Cães
Character: Voice of Captain Dantas (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1987
Type: Movie
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
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No Trace of Sin
Title: No Trace of Sin
Character: Aspirante Henrique Sousa Andrade
Released: February 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.
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A Culpa
Title: A Culpa
Character: Adriano
Released: May 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the killing of two men (a soldier and a native) by his sounding of the alarm during one given night.
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The Killers
Title: The Killers
Character: Rui Ventura Tadeu, aliás Kilas
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
"Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.
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O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
Title: O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
Character: D. Lucas Telmo de Midões
Released: May 9, 1978
Type: Movie
The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
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O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Title: O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.
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O Funeral do Patrão
Title: O Funeral do Patrão
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Dificuldade de Governar
Title: Dificuldade de Governar
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Animation of Bertolt Brecht's namesake poem recited by Mario Viegas