Os Salteadores

(The Outlaws)

A film by Abi Feijo (1993)

based on the book "Os Grao-Capitaes" by Jorge se Sena


 
 

Dentro de um carro em viagem nocturna pelas estradas portuguesas dos anos 50 discute-se a "identidade" de um grupo de homens capturados e mortos, anos atras, no rescaldo da Guerra Civil Espanhola. Tres prespectivas confrontam-se num discurso que se nos revela como amostragem dos tecidos e sensibilidades ideologicas do fascismo portugues. como se a historia pudesse ser inventada ou esquecida...

Inside a car, on a night trip along Portugese roads sometime in the 1950's, there is a discussion about the identity of a group of men, captured and killed some years ago in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, decades before. Three perspectives are confronted in a speech that reveals the surface and the ideological sensibilities of the Portugese fasciscm. As if the story could be invented or forgotten...



Technique: graphite drawing on paper Author: Jorge de Sena Text Adaption: Abi Feijo and Sergio Andrade
Director: Abi Feijo Producer: Jorge Neves Animation: Filmografo, Animais (Lisboa)
Duration: 14 minutes, 14 seconds Production: Filmografo / Jorge Neves Photograpy: Pedro Serrazina and Martin Koscielniak
Size: 35mm, colour Music: Manuel Tentugal Sound Track: Manuel Tentugal

Financial support of Instituto Portugues da Arte Cinematografic a e Audiovisual

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