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The Divine Comedy (1991) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1991 · 136 mins · Portuguese
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- Starring
- Manoel de Oliveira, Maria de Medeiros, Diogo Dória, Leonor Silveira, Maria João Pires, Ricardo Trêpa
Set in a mental institution, the patients imagine themselves as a host of iconic figures—Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, a philosopher, a prophet, and Saint Teresa of Ávila—each taking turns to recite passages from Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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