Word: antonios
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...long period, the country grew accustomed to being governed by a man of genius, but from now on it must adapt itself to being governed by men like other men." With those words, Marcello Caetano, a longtime associate of Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, last week became Premier of Portugal, ending 36 years of Salazar rule...
...ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. This is a simple story of boy meets girl, Italian style, which has been given significance and deep resonance by the author's elaborate prose and by his sense of irony...
...their cord-bound cardboard suitcases, the Portuguese workmen trudge across fields toward the unknown. They make up little knots of young and old, converging to form a stream of humanity, silent with uncertainty. The trip turns out to be a nightmare of danger and betrayal, hunger and exploitation. When Antonio reaches Paris at last, Carlos is nowhere to be found. Fellow Portuguese are friendly, but there are no jobs in construction work, let alone carpentry. A pretty nurse he meets tries to be helpful, but her world is too different from that of a poor, illegal immigrant with no working...
...Antonio (Marc Pico) is a young carpenter who decides to leave his village for Paris, where his craft, he hears, is in great demand. His friend Carlos had made the trip before him and had promised to find him a job. Since immigration regulations are troublesome, Antonio makes contact with an under ground network that, for a fee, smuggles men into Spain and across the French border...
Director Christian de Chalonge tells Antonio's story in straightforward documentary style, avoiding dramatic climaxes and resisting all the opportunities for easy sentimentality. The casting is superbly unactorish. Churlish hotel clerks, irritated factory officials and the nurse's sleek young friends making banal conversation about the beauties of Portugal-all look their roles and read their lines without a hint of theatrical emphasis or timing. The Portuguese peasants are clearly not actors at all. but no professional performer could hope to match the direct simplicity of their response to the tragedy that surrounds them. Best...