Snow White

Synopsis

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.

Main Cast

Ana Brandão

A Rainha

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Luís Miguel Cintra

O Caçador

Age : 75 | Popularity : 6%

Diogo Dória

O Rei

Age : 71 | Popularity : 7%

Rita Durão

Age : 48 | Popularity : 5%

Miguel Borges

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

José Airosa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Maria Do Carmo Rôlo

Branca de Neve

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

João César Monteiro

Age : 64 | Popularity : 10%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Paulo Branco
Camera	Director of Photography	Mário Barroso
Writing	Screenplay	João César Monteiro
	Story	Robert Walser
Directing	Director	João César Monteiro
Sound	Sound Mixer	Joaquim Pinto
	Assistant Sound Editor	Nuno Leonel
Department	Role	Name

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