22-year-old Alex remembers his childhood – and its end – with absolute clarity. Life in a remote village with his mother, after his father had left to fight in the colonial
war. The film masterfully depicts the scars of an entire generation of children, and a nation’s loss of innocence in its megalomaniac defence of an imaginary world empire. The real drama begins, when his father returns home a changed man, and when Alex will not shut his eyes against what will change his own life forever.

Director: Teresa Villaverde
Screenplay: Teresa Villaverde
Cast: Ricardo Colares Teresa Roby Joaquim de Almeida Maria de Medeiros
Producer: João Pedro Bénard Joaquim Pinto
Orig. Titel: A idade maior
Section: Québec Deluxe
Original language: Portuguese
Filmtype: Fiction Feature
DoP: Elfi Mikesch
Editor: Vasco Pimentel, Manuela Viegas
Format: 35 mm

Printsource: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V., Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin, Deutschland, Tel: +49-30-26 95 51 50, Fax: +49-30-26 95 51 11, e-mail: verleih@fdk-berlin.de, www.fdk-berlin.de

Production Company: Invicta Filmes; Instituto Português de Cinema (I.P.C); ZDF (Das Kleine Fernsehspiel)