LETTERS FROM WAR
by Ivo Ferreira
synopsis
Cartas da Guerra is based on a book by renowned Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes. The epistolary novel, published in 2005, brings together the letters of a young soldier that were sent to his wife from Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Colonial War. Just like Lobo Antunes himself, the young soldier is a doctor and an aspiring writer.
| international title: | Letters from War |
| original title: | Cartas da guerra |
| country: | Portugal |
| sales agent: | The Match Factory |
| year: | 2016 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Ivo Ferreira |
| film run: | 105' |
| release date: | FR 19/04/2017 |
| screenplay: | Ivo Ferreira, Edgar Medina |
| cast: | Miguel Nunes, Ricardo Pereira, Tiago Aldeia, Margarida Vila-Nova, João Nunes Monteiro |
| cinematography by: | João Ribeiro |
| costumes designer: | Lucha d'Orey |
| producer: | Luís Urbano |
| production: | O Som e a Fúria |
| distributor: | O Som e a Fúria, Memento Distribution |
