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Redemption

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Redemption

original title:

Redemption

directed by:

Miguel Gomes

cast:

Jaime Pereira, Donatello Brida, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Maren Ade

screenplay:

Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo

editing:

Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, João Nicolau

producer:

Paolo Benzi, Daniela Cattaneo, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Sandro Aguilar, Luís Urbano, Daniela Cattaneo

production:

Okta Film, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Komplizen Film, O Som e a Fúria, in collaboration with Zdf/Arte, Fuori Orario – Rai Tre, Rtp, with the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandeburg, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

distribution:

Luce Cinecittà [Italy]

country:

Portugal/France/Germany/Italy

year:

2013

film run:

26'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (25/07/2013)

festivals & awards:

On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head.
But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?