Rite of Spring (film)
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Rite of Spring is a 1963
Portuguese
film directed by Manoel de Oliveira
. The inhabitants of Curalha, a small village in western Portugal, perform the Passion of Jesus every year according to a 16th century(?) text. Oliveira stumbled upon this during the production of a film in 1963; the film is also rememberd for "a furious apocalyptic montage that links Christ's death to the violence and lunacy of the Vietnam era".
1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
Portuguese
Cinema of Portugal
Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...
film directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
. The inhabitants of Curalha, a small village in western Portugal, perform the Passion of Jesus every year according to a 16th century(?) text. Oliveira stumbled upon this during the production of a film in 1963; the film is also rememberd for "a furious apocalyptic montage that links Christ's death to the violence and lunacy of the Vietnam era".