Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico is a 1962

1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

 Portuguese

Cinema of Portugal

Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Jorge Brum do Canto

Jorge Brum do Canto

Jorge Brum do Canto was a Portuguese film director.-Biography:Jorge Brum do Canto was born in Lisbon, on February 10, 1910, from a family with aristocratic Flemish and English roots. In Lisbon he attended high school and entered in the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law but did not conclude his...

. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival

13th Berlin International Film Festival

The 13th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1963.-Jury:* Wendy Toye * Harry R. Sokal* Fernando Ayala* Jean-Pierre Melville* B. R...

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The film is based on the book of the same name written by Fernando Namora

Fernando Goncalves Namora

Fernando Namora , with the full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora was a Portuguese writer and medical doctor. Namora was born in Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra District and died in Lisbon, Portugal....

. It contains several separate stories, each from the life of a physician and told as first-person narrative

First-person narrative

First-person point of view is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the...

 from the memory of the central character, drawing a realistic picture of the life of a physician with the use of many adjectives.

Cast

• Jorge Sousa Costa - Doctor
• João Guedes - Dr. Valenca
• Emilio Correia - Pharmacist
• Irene Cruz - Luisa
• Costa Ferreira
• Ruy Furtado
• Maria Olguim
• Leónia Mendes
• Manuela Bonito
• Rudolfo Neves
• Ivone de Moura
• Mário Sargedas
• António Machado
  Antonio Machado
  Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98....
  
  
• Emídio Ribeiro Pratas