The Sound of the Shaking Earth(1990)

Overview

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.

Cast & Crew

José Mário Branco

Alberto

Manuela de Freitas

Isabel

Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Luciano

S

Sara Marques

Girl

M

Miguel Simão

Cipriana

M

Miguel Simão

Cipriano

J

Jean-Pierre Tailhade

Jean-Pierre

C

Conceição Guerra

Maria

Paulo Rocha

Hostel Doorman

F

Francisco Marinho

Sailor

P

Paulo Sousa Rocha

Books Salesman

C

Carolina Viana

Goddaughter

Milú

Girl in Disco

M

Maria Tomás

Girl in Disco

João Cabral

João Pedro Bénard