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Benilde or the Virgin Mother
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Benilde or the Virgin Mother

1975
Directed byManoel de Oliveira
1h 52m

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.

CAST
Maria Amélia MattaBenildeJorge RollaEduardo, Benilde's cousinVarela Silva
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Melo Cantos, Benilde's father
Glória de MatosEtelvina, Eduardo's mother
Maria BarrosoGenoveva, the house-keeper
Augusto de FigueiredoCristóvão, the priest
Jacinto RamosFabrício, the doctor
Manoel de OliveiraScreaming Madman (voice)
DETAILS
GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.2

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