Longe da Vista (1999)
1h 22m
Running Time
April 2, 1999Release Date
Plot.
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
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Cast & Crew.
Canto e Castro
Eugénio
Francisco Nascimento
Vasco
Henrique Viana
Abel
Rita Blanco
Rute
Zita Duarte
Idalina
Rogério Samora
Warden
João Mário Grilo
Director
José Mora Ramos
Chief Guard
Paulo Filipe
Writer
Paulo Branco
Producer
Heitor Lourenço
Guard #1
Riccardo Del Fra
Composer
José Pinto
Barbas
Fernando Heitor
Paramedic
Laurent Machuel
Cinematographer
Jean Dubreuil
Editor
Details.
Wiki.
Far from Vista is a 1998 Portuguese film directed by João Mário Grilo, with Canto e Castro, Francisco Nascimento and Henrique Viana in the main roles.