The Immortals

Os Imortais, feature film, 2003

DIRECTED BY: António-Pedro Vasconcelos

The Immortals

CAST:
Joaquim de Almeida (Roberto Alua),
Emmanuelle Seigner (Madeleine Durand),
Nicolau Breyner (Joaquim Malarranha),
Rogério Samora (Horácio Lobo),
Rui Unas (Vitor Pratas)

SCRIPT:
António-Pedro Vasconcelos,
Vincente Alves do Ó,
Claire Downs,
António Tavares Teles

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Barry Ackroyd

Synopsis:
Fifty-year-old Vitor Pratas sits in a hotel and drinks to the memory of his four co-fighters, Portuguese war veterans who fought in Africa in the 1970s. Pratas has just found out that the detective Joaquim Malarranha has died and at his funeral he reminisces about his friends from the war, their deaths and the mutual criminal history that connected them all with the deceased detective.

color, 130 min