| DIRECTOR: |
Francisco Manso |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Mário Prata |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Edgar Moura |
| EDITION: |
Luis Sobral |
| MUSIC: |
Tito Paris, Toy Vieira |
| PRODUCER: |
Nikola Machenko, Pierre Rival |
| CAST: |
Nelson Xavier, Maria Ceiça, Chico
Diaz, Zezé Motta, Via Negromonte, Milton
Gonçalvez, Karla Leal |
| FESTIVALS: |
Gramado |
| PRODUCTION: |
Cine-Luz (Sandra Werneck), Rio de
Janeiro Tel: 21 259-0260; J.L. Vasconcelos,
Lisboa Tel: 1 885-1758 Fax: 1 885-2674 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Cine-Luz (Sandra Werneck), Rio de
Janeiro Tel: 21 259-0260; J.L. Vasconcelos,
Lisboa Tel: 1 885-1758 Fax: 1 885-2674 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
O Testamento do Senhor Napomuceno |
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Col., 110 min., 1996 |
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Francisco Manso has an extensive career as
producer and director of various films both for
the cinema and for television. Among his films,
outstanding are Terra Nova Mar Velho and Alentejo
Cantado in addition to the series Portugal
Passado Presente, Uma Saga Européia and Filhos
da Estrada e do Vento.
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Verde novelist
Germano Almeida, the film follows the trajectory of Mr
Napomuceno, one of the richest men in the Cape Verde
Islands. There he has made his fortune and his life.When
he dies, his fortune, much sought after, has a single
unexpected destination: mestiza Graça, of 25 years,
daughter of Napomucena with a black woman. This decision
eventually reveals the secrets to the nephew, who had
thought he was the sole heir to the uncle. He leaves not
only the fortune but also several recordings to his
daughter, in which he tells all of his life subsequent to
his arrival in Cape Verde in 1928, only fifteen years
old, and hence to his success as a tradesman.Little by
little, he discovers the true personality of the father:
a man, ambitious, intelligent, astute, opportunistic but
sensitive and in love. During all of the descriptions,
Graça feels more and more bound to this man, and
discovers that she and her mother were the only two
passions in his life.