Abraham's Valley (1993)

09/01/1993Drama3h 23m
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Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Leonor Silveira

    Ema Cardeano Paiva

  2. Cast 1

    Luís Miguel Cintra

    Carlos de Paiva

  3. Cast 1

    Ruy de Carvalho

    Paulino Cardeano

  4. Cécile Sanz de Alba

    Ema (young)

  5. Cast 1

    Luís Lima Barreto

    Pedro Luminares

  6. Micheline Larpin

    Simona

  7. Cast 1

    Diogo Dória

    Fernando Osório

  8. Cast 1

    José Pinto

    Caires

  9. Filipe Cochofel

    Fortunato

**A film that, due to its dominant atmosphere and boring slowness, seems like a funeral service.** My opinion about Portuguese cinema has never been the best. I have always considered that, despite the beauty of the places in our country and the quality of the actors and technical personnel, there are no directors capable of doing something that is, at the same time, minimally palatable to the general public and technically well done. Either Portuguese directors opt for a vain and irritating academicism, and make films that never leave the festivals and end up forgotten, or they surrender t...

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Original LanguagePortuguese 

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