Manha Submersa (1980)
08-09-2025, 04:42 PM
Ein atemberaubend emotionaler Film von Regisseur Lauro Antonio, basierend auf dem autobiografischen Roman des Schriftstellers Virgilio Ferreira, der während der Diktatur in Portugal (1945-1968) verboten war. Der Film ist ein fesselndes Drama über das Schicksal eines 12-jährigen Jungen, der zwangsweise in ein katholisches Priesterseminar geschickt wurde.
Estefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.