Sostiene Pereira | |
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Directed by | Roberto Faenza |
Produced by | Franco Committeri |
Written by | Roberto Faenza Sergio Vecchio |
Starring |
Marcello Mastroianni Joaquim de Almeida Daniel Auteuil Nicoletta Braschi Stefano Dionisi |
Music by | Ennio Morricone |
Cinematography | Blasco Giurato |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Release date
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March 22, 1996 (Portugal) July 3, 1996 (France) |
Running time
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104 Min |
Country |
Italy Portugal |
Language |
Italian Portuguese |
Sostiene Pereira (Pereira prétend in French, Afirma Pereira in European Portuguese . Páginas da revolução in Brazilian Portuguese) is a 1995 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is based on Antonio Tabucchi's novel Sostiene Pereira.
Marcello Mastroianni won the David di Donatello as Best Actor.
In Lisbon, during the António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist that works in the culture section of a newspaper, discovers the real dark side of the regime when he meets and helps an anti-fascist young man Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi).