Cast

Albino S. Pedro Carlos Margarido Mariana Margarido Luis Ferreira Armando Manuel Rosalía Comba

Plot

A poetic film on the rural life of the remote Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal, mixing documentary and fiction, with voices of the people.

Sinekatalog’s take

A poetic, ethnographic Portuguese masterpiece.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (358 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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