The Jew
1996The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Acted in
Dina Sfat
Fernanda Torres
José Lewgoy
Mário Viegas
Cristina Aché
Ruy de Carvalho
Fabio Junqueira
Sinde Filipe
as Marquis of Alegrete
Curado Ribeiro
Sérgio Godinho
as António Teixeira
João Grosso
Laura Soveral
as Maria Coutinho
José Fonseca e Costa
as Surgeon
André Gomes
Pedro Efe
as Warden
Cândido Ferreira
as Priest in the Bar
Canto e Castro
Edwin Luisi
as Alexandre de Gusmão
Amílcar Botica
as Bishop
Filipe Ferrer
as Financial Secretary
João Maria Pinto
as Bartender
Varela Silva
as José Mendes da Silva
Alexandre de Sousa
as Priest
Ruth Escobar
as D. Maria Ana