No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
Overview
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
- Production
- Gemini Films, Tornasol Media, Madragoa Filmes
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Cast
Luís Miguel Cintra
2nd Lt. Cabrita / Viriato / King John II of Portugal
Miguel Guilherme
Pvt. Salvador / Lusitanian Warrior / Alcácer Warrior
Diogo Dória
Pvt. Manuel / Lusitanian Warrior / Diogo (King John's Cousin)
Luís Lucas
Cpl. Brito / Lusitanian Warrior / Alcácer Nobleman
António Sequeira Lopes
Soldier / Lusitanian Warrior / Alcácer Warrior
Lola Forner
Princess Dona Isabel
Ruy de Carvalho
Preacher at Funeral / Suicidal Warrior
Leonor Silveira
Tethys
Paulo Matos
Radio Operator / Vasco da Gama
João Bénard da Costa
Baron of Alvito
Luís Mascarenhas
King Afonso V of Portugal
Ricardo Trêpa
Soldier
Catarina Furtado
Isle of Love Woman
Sofia Sá da Bandeira
Isle of Love Woman
André Gago
Soldier
Manoel de Oliveira
Narrator
Crew
- Director
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Producers
- Paulo Branco,Gerardo Herrero
- Cinematography
- Elso Roque
- Composer
- Alejandro Massó
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Filipe Manuel Neto
January 1, 2023
**One of Oliveira's best… but weak, fragile, boring and a little unpatriotic.** I already had the opportunity to see, and review here, more than one film by Manoel de Oliveira, and after having seen this film, I keep my ideas. I have absolutely nothing against the director, I really appreciate his tenacity, his passion for cinematographic art, the way he devoted himself to cinema in a country that never saw in cinema anything but a "fait-diver", and that never led him to seriously or adequate…