Requiem

Requiem

Original title: Requiem
Production: CAB Productions; Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC); Filmograph S.A.; Gémini Films; Instituto Português da Arte Cinematográfica e Audiovisual (IPACA); Madragoa Filmes; Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR); Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Country: France
Director: Alain Tanner
Script: Alain Tanner; Bernard Comment
Photography: Hugues Ryffel
Music: Michel Wintsch
Cast: Francis Frappat; Cécile Tanner; André Marcon; Alexandre Zloto; Zita Duarte; Márcia Breia; Raúl Solnado; Miguel Yeco; Lia Gama; Rafaela Santos
Year: 1998
Duration: 104
Genre: Fantastic
Color: Color
Original language: French
Languages available: French
Subtitles: French (for Portuguese dialogs); English

Synopsis:

Paul has a strange appointment in Lisbon, where he will meet the ghost of Fernando Pessoa. As he waits, he will meet, by a series of coincidences, a variety of characters of the present and the past, where the living and the dead cross at the same time, and where time is decompartmentalized.

Based on the novel by Antonio Tabucchi.

Co-production between France, Switzerland and Portugal.

Awards:

Nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 1999: Best Film

Nominated for the Tokyo Grand Prix, at the Tokyo International Film Festival 1998