A story of love and deceit, set against the backdrop of the political police of the Salazar dictatorship, censorship, persecution and imprisonment, and the student uprising of the early 1960s. The final screenplay by António-Pedro Vasconcelos, adapted from the last work of José Cardoso Pires.

Lavagante
2025
92 min.
Fiction
Portugal
Portugal, literary adaptation, history, dictatorship, authoritarianism, politics
P&B
Mário Barroso
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Mário Barroso
Micael Espinha
Francisco Froes, Nuno Lopes, Júlia Palha, Leonor Alecrim
Paulo Branco
Leopardo Filmes
Mário Laginha
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