The Sound of the Shaking Earth

1h 33min

Drama

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.

Production Companies

RTP

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Inforfilmes

Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)

Release date

22nd Oct 1990

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Português