Os Imortais (The Immortals)

ETHAL, in cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Cyprus, organizes a three-day Ibero-American Film Festival from Thursday 18 March until Saturday 20 March 2010.

The "immortals" are a group of Portuguese war veterans who earned their title in the colonial wars in Africa in the early 1970s. When Portuguese East Africa became Mozambique, they returned to their fatherland only to feel left out and misunderstood. The soldiers were trained to not feel pain and not fear death and through their gruelling experiences this has become their second nature, a nature which is completely useless now in the streets of civilised Portugal. Every year, they come together for a week of remembering their past experiences and giving in to the urges of their second nature. For their week out in 1985, they organise a bank robbery that should have been a piece of cake but does not go entirely as planned.

Cast:
Joaquim de Almeida (Roberto Alua)
Emmanuelle Seigner (Madeleine Durand)
Nicolau Breyner (Joaquim Malarranha)
Rogério Samora (Horácio Lobo)

Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Writer: Claire Downs, António Tavares Teles
Runtime: 123 min
Genre: Action, Drama
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Production Year: 2003