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Dominican Rep. The Fifth Empire – Yesterday As Today
- Original title
- O quinto império – Ontem como hoje
- Year
- 2004
- Running time
- 127 min.
- Country
Portugal- Director
- Screenwriter
- Manoel de Oliveira. Play: José Regio
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- This film is based on the theatrical play El Rei Sebastião, by José Régio. He was a critic, poet, playwright, novelist and essayist; he was and is a major figure, and the play, as he stated, intended to analyse the King, the Man and the mythical character of the Portuguese King Sebastião. Sebastião, after his overwhelming defeat at the battle of Alcácer-Kibir (1578), better known as the Battle of the Three Kings, after which his body was never identified, became the mythical Hidden One, having previously been the Desired One. This myth which is indeed sung and exalted in the works of many authors in Portugal and abroad. Curiously, this myth is also part of Muslim mythology with the same figure of the hidden one and, just like King Sebastião, the same is supposed to take place with the Muslim Imam (that of the twelfth generation) who is commonly believed to return on a white horse on a misty morning in order to finally defeat Evil and establish harmony among people.
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