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A Caixa

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A Caixa
French poster
Directed byManoel de Oliveira
Written byManoel de Oliveira
Prista Monteiro (play)
Produced byPaulo Branco
StarringLuís Miguel Cintra
Glicínia Quartin
Ruy de Carvalho
CinematographyMário Barroso
Edited byValérie Loiseleux
Manoel de Oliveira
Release date
  • 18 November 1994 (1994-11-18)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesFrance
Portugal
LanguagePortuguese

A Caixa (lit. The Box) is a 1994 Portuguese comedy film adapted from the homonymous Hélder Prista Monteiro play[1] by Manoel de Oliveira, who also directed the film. It was screened in competition at the 1994 Tokyo International Film Festival.

Plot

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Stories of various individuals living in a poor district of Lisbon are intertwined with the sad life of a blind street vendor whose only means of support is his elm box.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Nascimento, Frederico Lopes / Marco Oliveira / Guilherme. "A Caixa". CinePT-Cinema Portugues (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-04-02.
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