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A Corte do Norte



International Title
Northern Land

Italian Title
La tenuta al nord

Portugal, 2008 - 122'
Color, 2K D-Cinema

Director
João Botelho

Cast
Ana Moreira (Sissi, Rosalina, Emília de Sousa, Águeda, Rosamund), Ricardo Aibéo (João Sanha), Rogério Samora (João de Barros), Laura Soveral (D. Matilde), João Ricardo (Gaspar de Barros).

Screenplay
João Botelho (based on Agustina Bessa Luis' book)

Cinematography
João Ribeiro

Editing
João Braz

Production Design
Catarina Amaro

Costumes Design
Silvia Grabowski

Producer
António Da Cunha Telles, Pandora Da Cunha Telles

Production
Filmes Fundo – Praça do Principe Real 23, 1º – 1250184 Lisbon (Portugal) – T. +351 21 324 3200 – F. +351 21 347 32 52 – www.filmesdefundo.com
Screenings

29.10.2008 h 16:00, Sinopoli
30.10.2008 h 19:30, Sala Cinema Ikea
31.10.2008 h 17:30, Metropolitan Sala 1

Synopsis
Emília de Sousa was the greatest actress on the Portuguese stage at the end of the XIX century. As a result of her marriage with the rich Madeiran Gaspar de Barros, she became the Baroness Madalena do Mar. She was as beautiful as Sissi, the Empress of Austria, with who she socialised in the winter of 1860/61. One day, she decided to construct a mystery that lasted for four generations and over a century. The dramas of Rosalina and Emilia, but also the unlucky Princess Sissi, all linked by a common destiny on the cliffs of the Corte do Norte, the dark castle towering over the sea off the island of Madeira.

Director
João Botelho, born in 1949, directed his first feature film, Conversa Acabada, in 1982, that was selected for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. He has since then directed many films, that have been presented to the most important film festivals, such as Tempos Difíceis (Hard Times, 1987), Aqui na Terra (Here on Earth, 1991), Três Palmeiras (1994), A Mulher que Acreditava ser Presidente dos EUA (1999), Tráfico (Traffic, 1997), Quem és tu? (Who Are You?, 2001) and O Fatalista (The Fatalist, 2005).