Gestures and Fragments: An Essay on the Military and Power
Released: February 22, 1983Runtime: 90 minLanguage: PT
""Essay on the Military and the Power"", a phrase that also belongs to the title of ""Gestures & Fragments"", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
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Otelo Saraiva De Carvalho
as Self
Eduardo Lourenco
as Self
Robert Kramer
as American Journalist
Joaquim Furtado
as Narrator
Erika Kramer
as Woman who wrote a Letter
Jorge Silva Melo
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Zita Duarte
as Woman on River Boat
Luis Miguel Cintra
as Armando
Jaime Silverio Marques
as Self - Member of Junta de Salvação Nacional
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