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