Films

With guest - António Victorino d’Almeida (Director) | Session 1

Digitally restored by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan. An initiative under the Next Generation EU programme.

Portugal, 1973. On the eve of the Carnation Revolution, Mário, an ex-combatant from the war in Guinea, wants to return to his home village. He brings with him a vague sense of guilt for the death of two men – a soldier and a native – as a result of an alarm he raised during the night. Mário is looking for a member of the parliament on whose farm, in the north of the country, his family used to work – and he wants to get a job there. Isolated by everything and everyone, Mário ends up becoming, in the eyes of the people, a figure commonly defined as a werewolf, and ends up victimised by a hatred that finds its best alibi in this popular superstition. Jorge Leitão Ramos wrote in 1981: “the great advantage of ‘A Culpa’ was that, for the price of a cinema ticket, we had the opportunity to see several film options. From comedy to horror, from surrealist incursions to politics”.