Sostiene Pereira
{{Infobox film
| name = Sostiene Pereira
| image = Sostiene Pereira.jpg
| caption =
| director = Roberto Faenza
| producer = Franco Committeri
| writer = Roberto Faenza
Sergio Vecchio
| narrator =
| starring = Marcello Mastroianni
Joaquim de Almeida
Daniel Auteuil
Nicoletta Braschi
Stefano Dionisi
| music = Ennio Morricone
| cinematography = Blasco Giurato
| editing = Ruggero Mastroianni
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1996|03|22|Portugal|1996|07|3|France|df=y}}
| runtime = 104 Min
| language = Italian
Portuguese
| budget =
}}
Sostiene Pereira (Pereira prétend in French, Afirma Pereira in Portugal and Páginas da revolução in Brazil) is a 1995 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza.[http://www.imdb.org/title/tt0115479/releaseinfo Release information – Internet Movie Database]{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/154395/Pereira-Declares/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226021544/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/154395/Pereira-Declares/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-02-26 |title=NY Times: Sostiene Pereira |accessdate=2009-04-02| first=Lawrence |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author-link=Lawrence Van Gelder |date=2008 | last=Van Gelder}} It is based on Antonio Tabucchi's novel Sostiene Pereira.
Marcello Mastroianni won the David di Donatello as Best Actor.
Plot
In Lisbon, during the António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist who works in the culture section of a newspaper, discovers the real dark side of the regime when he meets and helps an anti-fascist young man, Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi).
Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni - Pereira
- Joaquim de Almeida - Manuel
- Daniel Auteuil - Dr. Cardoso
- Stefano Dionisi - Monteiro Rossi
- Nicoletta Braschi - Marta
- Marthe Keller - Mrs. Delgado
- Teresa Madruga - Portiera
- Nicolau Breyner - Father António
- Filipe Ferrer - Silva
- João Grosso - Police Chief
- Mário Viegas - Newspaper Editor
- Manuela Cassola
- Fátima Marques
- Rui Otero
- Pedro Efe
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title | id = 0115479| title = Sostiene Pereira }}
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{{Roberto Faenza}}
{{Antonio Tabucchi}}
Category:1990s Italian-language films
Category:1990s Portuguese-language films
Category:1990s political drama films
Category:Films directed by Roberto Faenza
Category:Films scored by Ennio Morricone
Category:1995 multilingual films
Category:Italian multilingual films
Category:Portuguese multilingual films
Category:Adaptations of works by Antonio Tabucchi
Category:Films based on Italian novels
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