“I went by train to the nearest town, where later I took a coach that left me, at night, in a village whose name I do not remember.
I was told there was a hostel down the street. It was an old house in ruins. I
entered and went to the kitchen, a long, dark room at the bottom of which was a
hearth. At its foot sat an old woman. I did not feel comfortable.”
And with good reason, as the school
inspector is about to find out: for a sinister nobleman rules this fiefdom with
terror. Will the school inspector’s arrival trigger a similar chain reaction to Jonathan Harker’s at Count Dracula’s castle? The Baron is based on two works by Branquinho da Fonseca, a writer so
dear to Pêra that he adapts a work of his every five years or so – the
latest being Caminhos magnétykos (2018); the most enigmatic being Rio Turvo (2007).
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Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 91"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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