The Portuguese Nun
The Portuguese Nun is a 2009 French-Portuguese film by Eugène Green.
Plot
French actor Julie travels to Lisbon to shoot a film based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun. Though her mother was Portuguese, she has never visited Lisbon before, having always holidayed in Porto, and so she decides to make the most of the trip to explore the city. She encounters a variety of Lisbon's inhabitants: an orphan, a suicidal aristocrat, the reincarnation of King Sebastião I and an enigmatic nun.Cast
- Leonor Baldaque as Julie
- Eugène Green as Denis Verde, the director
- Diogo Dória as D. Henrique Cunha
- Ana Moreira as Irma Joana, the nun
- Francisco Mozos as Vasco, the boy
- Adrien Michaux as Martin Dautand
- Beatriz Batarda as Madalena
- Carloto Cotta as D. Sebastião