Pereira Declares (1995)
Sostiene Pereira
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
- Date of release
- 1995-04-06
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (84)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Roberto Faenza
Casting
- Marcello Mastroianni — Pereira
- Stefano Dionisi — Monteiro Rossi
- Nicoletta Braschi — Marta
- Daniel Auteuil — Dr. Cardoso
- Joaquim de Almeida — Manuel
- Marthe Keller — Mrs. Delgado
- Teresa Madruga — Porter
- Nicolau Breyner — Father Antonio
- Filipe Ferrer — Silva
- João Grosso — Police chief
- Mário Viegas — Newspaper editor
- Manuela Cassola
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