
"A critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century."
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
Eça de Queirós

Ramalho Ortigão

Countess Luísa Valadas

Count Jorge Valadas

Vasco

Carmen Puebla

Nicázio Puebla

Rytmel

Eduardo Coelho

Countess (voice)

Batalha Reis

Cocheiro

Dr. Sidónio

Conde Abranhos

Manuel de Arriaga

Priest

Unknown Role
D. Ana

Dancer

D. Carla

Antero de Quental

(Uncredited)
