The Sound of the Shaking Earth (1990)
Overview
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
Cast
José Mário Branco
Alberto
Manuela de Freitas
Isabel
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Luciano
João Bénard da Costa
Professor
Paulo Rocha
Hostel Doorman
Milú
Girl in Disco
João Cabral
João Pedro Bénard
