
131 minutes
10/17/1980
Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
Joaquim Manuel Dias
as António

Eunice Muñoz
as Dona Estefânia

Vergílio Ferreira
as Reitor

Canto e Castro
as Padre Tomás

Jacinto Ramos
as Padre Martins

Carlos Wallenstein
as Padre Lino

Miguel Franco
as Capitão

Maria Olguim
as Joana

Adelaide João
as António's Mother

Joaquim Rosa
as Padre Alves
Alexandra Prado Coelho
as Mariazinha

Rui Luís
as Tio Gorra
Mário Botas
as Padre

Manuel Cavaco
as Criado

Camacho Costa
as Padre Pita