My Case

My Case (1986)

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Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: Manoel de Oliveira

Casts

	Bulle Ogier as Actrice n° 1
	Axel Bogousslavsky as L'Employé
	Luís Miguel Cintra as L'Intrus
	Fred Personne as L'Auteur
	Wladimir Ivanovsky as Le spectateur
	Héloïse Mignot as Actrice nº 2
	Grégoire Oestermann as Le projectionniste
	Henri Serre as Voix-off (voice)
	Teresa Madruga as Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)

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