Maria Paola Porru Movie Trailers

The Jester Trailer (1987)

31 October 1987

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

Paraíso Perdido Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before.

Gestures and Fragments Trailer (1983)

22 February 1983

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo? Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director.

Alexandre e Rosa Trailer (1978)

06 January 1978

A short film.

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista Trailer (1994)

31 December 1994

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema.

Dead Man's Seat Trailer (1984)

25 October 1984

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered.

O Fantasma Trailer (2000)

20 October 2000

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men.

Trip to Happiness Trailer (1978)

24 June 1978

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

New Perspectives Trailer (1979)

24 June 1979

Woman packs up her things to go to an elderly care facility, and talks.

Dina and Django Trailer (1983)

29 April 1983

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family.

Silvestre Trailer (1982)

06 May 1982

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976 Trailer (1978)

17 March 1978

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.

Island of Loves Trailer (1982)

08 June 1982

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China.

Neither Bird Nor Fish Trailer (1978)

01 September 1978

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens.

Passagem ou a Meio Caminho Trailer (1986)

25 February 1986

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation.

Music for Herself Trailer (1979)