The Vows
Encyclopedia
The Vows is a 1973
Portuguese
drama film
directed by António de Macedo
. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival
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1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....
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 António de Macedo
Antonio de Macedo
Antonio de Macedo was first a filmmaker and later a writer, university professor and lecturer.He gave up from filmmaking in the nineties as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the only financial source for film production in...
. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival
1973 Cannes Film Festival
The 26th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10–25, 1973. At this festival two new non-competitive sections were added: 'Étude et documents' and 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' ....
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Cast
- Guida Maria - Maria do Mar
- Sinde Filipe - Labareda
- João Mota - José
- Luís Santos - Salvador
- J. Rodrigues de Carvalho - Mário
- Fernando Loureiro - Gypsy
- Luís Barradas - Gypsy
- Fernanda Coimbra - Gypsy
- Maria - Joaquina
- Grece de Castro - Grandmother
- Xico Machado - Father João
- Agostinho Alves - Father Couto
- Celeste Alves - Maria's neighbour