1982
6.4 (8 votes)
2h 50m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Suma Filmes
Island of Loves (A Ilha dos Amores)
Overview
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.
Key Crew
Director: Paulo Rocha
Writer: Wenceslau de Moraes
Director of Photography: Elso Roque, Acácio de Almeida, Kōzō Okazaki
Screenplay: Paulo Rocha
Producer: Paulo Rocha, Etsuko Takano
