José Saramago
Know for: Writing
Born: 1922-11-16
Place of birth: Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal
Also know as:
Janela da Alma (2001)
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...
José & Pilar (2010)
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese...
The Biggest Flower in the World (2007)
Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry.
A Meeting with Milton Santos (2007)
The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the...
Santa María de Iquique, cien años después (2007)
A young writer moves to a new town on 21 December 2007. Among the moving boxes is a disc containing his father's legacy. One of these disks is the...
Língua - Vidas em Português (2003)
Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world.
Saramago: Documentos (1996)
About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he...
El Quijote desde la platea (2019)
How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons,...
José Saramago: Memorial do Convento (2011)
Documentary about the life and work of the writer José Saramago, with particular emphasis on the historical context and the importance of his...
José Saramago: Raised from the Ground (2008)
José Saramago, the Portuguese writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the greatest references in Portuguese literature. In...
Words of Truth (2004)
The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has...
Blindness (2008)
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of...
Embargo (2010)
Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the...
Enemy (2014)
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
The Biggest Flower in the World (2007)
Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry.
The Stone Raft (2002)
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the...
Last Sunday (2022)
The dawn is strange, with a harbinger of change. The next morning, Maria receives a mysterious visitor that leaves José disturbed and will...
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (2020)
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness...