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Vale Abraão = Val Abraham / argumento e diálogos de Manoel de Oliveira ; [producer, Paulo Branco ; writer, Augustina Bessa-Luis].
LIBRA DVD 015 301
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Luís, Agustina Bessa. Vale Abraão, author.
- Series:
- Classic European cinema
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Luís, Agustina Bessa--Film adaptations.
- Luís, Agustina Bessa.
- Married women--Portugal--Drama.
- Married women.
- Country life--Portugal--Drama.
- Country life.
- Adultery--Portugal--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Portugal.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Full frame.
- Other Title:
- Val Abraham
- Title on disc surface and container: Abraham's Valley
- Place of Publication:
- [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Vanguard Cinema/Sceneries Distribution, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Portuguese dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Story of Ema, a very attractive young girl with enormous power over men. She marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend and they move to the Valley of Abraham. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover. A Portuguese reworking of themes from "Madame Bovary."
- Participant:
- Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho, Luis Lima Barreto.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Mário Barroso ; editors, Manoel de Oliveira, Valerie Loiseleux.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as motion picture in 1993.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Based on the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís.
- OCLC:
- 51583528
- Publisher Number:
- 658769212334
- VF0113 Vanguard Cinema
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