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  • Luz Obscura (2017)
  • 76 min | Documentary
Luz Obscura (2017)
76 min | Documentary
How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having had a historical existence? Taking as its starting ...See moreHow many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having had a historical existence? Taking as its starting point the photographs taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from those close to an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that reveals how an authoritarian system operates within the family intimacy and recreates the feeling of a family's broken identity. See less
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Producer
Ansgar Schäefer (as Ansgar Schäfer)
Cinematographer
João Ribeiro
Editor
Susana de Sousa Dias
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Release date
May 10, 2018 (Portugal)
Awards
1 win & 2 nominations

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