Name: Quem Es Tu?
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Foreign, Period
Released: 2001
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Cast: Patricia Guerreiro, Suzana Borges, Rui Morisson, Rogtrio Samora, Jose Pinto

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Who Are You?

Genre

Adaptation

Drama

Foreign

Period

Release Date

2001

Production Company

39 Degraus; Portuguese Tv

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 52m

Synopsis

Aged 13, Maria Noronha, daughter of Madalena de Vilhena and of Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, is an extremely pale and fragile girl, sick with high fevers and violent hemoptyses provoked by merciless tuberculosis. In order to alleviate her suffering, she gathers poppies from her garden, always carries them in her arms, and at night lays them on the pillows on her bed. But the poppies have a devastating effect. Her deep sleep is disturbed by terrible ghosts and hallucinations: the luxury and decadence of the Portuguese XVII century, the counter attack by the Jesuits and the terrible Inquisition, the madness and chastity of the king, the plague, the blood and the sperm, the violating of tombs, a disastrous and fatal battle... All that is left are ghosts.