THE BLACK BOOK
synopsis
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
international title: | The Black Book |
original title: | O caderno negro |
country: | Portugal, France |
sales agent: | Alfama Films |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Valeria Sarmiento |
film run: | 113' |
release date: | FR 3/10/2018 |
screenplay: | Carlos Saboga |
cast: | Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, Jenna Thiam, Fleur Fitoussi, Vasco Varela da Silva, Tiago Varela da Silva |
cinematography by: | Acácio de Almeida |
film editing: | Luca Alverdi |
art director: | Isabel Branco |
music: | Jorge Arriagada |
producer: | Paulo Branco |
co-producer: | Carlos Bedran |
executive producer: | Ana Pinhão Moura |
production: | Leopardo Filmes, Alfama Films |
backing: | CB Partners (BE), APM Produções (PT), Cine + (FR), RTP (PT), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (PT), Lisboa Film Commission (PT), Procirep (FR) |
distributor: | Alfama Films |