The Island of Love

  • Portugal A Ilha dos Amores
Portugal / Japon, 1982, 100 min

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The period, work, love affairs, life and death of Wenceslau de Moraes, the great Portuguese writer of Asia, born in Lisbon in 1854, who died in Tokushima, Southern Japan, in 1929. The Island of Love is taken from the title of the most famous chapter in The Lusiads, the epic poem by Luiz Vaz de Camões, great Portuguese poet of the 16th century. (Cannes Film Festival)

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