Movies: Monique Rutler

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace....

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known....

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a livin...

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Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, wh...

José Nascimento films the process of the Agrarian Reform that happened in the Portuguese region of Alentejo during the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution....

Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us....

Polemical short documentary, produced by Cinequipe....