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Longe da Vista

5.0 82 mins Drama   1999
Madragoa Filmes  
Director(s): João Mário Grilo

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

Casts of Longe da Vista

Canto e Castro

as Eugénio

Henrique Viana

as Abel

Zita Duarte

as Idalina

Rita Blanco

as Rute

Rogério Samora

as Warden

José Mora Ramos

as Chief Guard

Heitor Lourenço

as Guard #1

José Pinto

as Barbas

Fernando Heitor

as Paramedic

Catarina Furtado

as Visitor

Paulo Oom

as Porter

Filipe Cochofel

as Young Prisoner

Mário Moutinho

as Paramedic 1

Luís Lucas

as Doctor

Miguel Hurst

as Prisoner in Hospital

Luís Alberto

as Prisioneiro

Natália Luiza

as Juíza

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