No, or the Vain Glory of Command

No, or the Vain Glory of Command
1990WarDramaHistory110 mins

Plot

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.

  • Manoel de Oliveira

    Director

  • Manoel de Oliveira

    Screenplay

  • P. Joao Marques

    Writer

  • Elso Roque

    Director of Photography

  • Manoel de Oliveira

    Editor

  • Sabine Franel

    Editor

  • Diogo Dória

    Soldier Manuel, Lusitanian warriror, Don João's cousin

  • Miguel Guilherme

    Soldier Salvador, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer warrior

  • Luís Lucas

    Cpl. Brito, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer nobleman

  • Luís Miguel Cintra

    Ens. Cabrita, Viriato, Don João de Portugal

  • Ruy de Carvalho

    Suicidal Warrior

  • Manoel de Oliveira

    Narrator

  • Catarina Furtado

    Isle of Love Woman

  • Sofia Sá da Bandeira

    Isle of Love Woman

  • Ricardo Trêpa

    Soldier (uncredited)

  • André Gago

    Soldier

  • João Bénard da Costa

    Baron of Alvito (as Duarte de Almeida)

  • Paulo Matos

    Radio Operator / Vasco da Gama

  • Leonor Silveira

    Tethys

  • Ruy de Carvalho

    Preacher at Funeral / Suicidal Warrior (as Rui de Carvalho)

  • Sofia Sá da Bandeira

    Isle of Love Woman (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    110 minutes

    Released

    1990-10-12

    Languages

    Português

    Countries

    France

    Portugal

    Spain

    Studios

    Gemini Films

    Tornasol Films

    Madragoa Filmes

    Sound

  • Alejandro Massó

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    449 days ago

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