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A Herdade - The Domain

A Herdade

A film by Tiago Guedes

Starring Albano Jerónimo, Sandra Faleiro, Miguel Borges

The chronicle of a family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940s, through the Carnation revolution to these days.

Release date

Available in
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DVD

Language:

Portuguese


Subtitles:

English, French, Spanish, Italian

Disc features:

FULL HD 1080P | 2.35:1 | COLOR | AUDIO DTS HD MASTER AUDIO 5.1

Discs:

1

Cast

ALBANO JERÓNIMO

SANDRA FALEIRO
MIGUEL BORGES

JOÃO VICENTE

JOÃO PEDRO MAMEDE
ANA VILELA DA COSTA
RODRIGO TOMÁS
BEATRIZ BRÁS
TERESA MADRUGA
DIOGO DÓRIA
ANA BUSTORFF
VICTORIA GUERRA
ÁLVARO CORREIA
CÂNDIDO FERREIRA
ANTÓNIO SIMÃO
TONAN QUITO
FERNANDO RODRIGUES
AMÉRICO SILVA
DINIS GOMES
JORGE LOUREIRO
CATARINA RÔLO SALGUEIRO
MARCO PAIVA
JOÃO ARRAIS
FILIPE VARGAS
MARCELLO URGEGHE
JORGE MOTA
GABRIEL TIMÓTEO

EDUARDO AGUILAR

Crew

Directed by TIAGO GUEDES


Screenplay RUI CARDOSO MARTINS, TIAGO GUEDES

With the collaboration of GILLES TAURAND


Film editing ROBERTO PERPIGNANI


Art direction ISABEL BRANCO
 
Cinematography JOÃO LANÇA MORAIS (Janeko)
 
Sound FRANCISCO VELOSO, ELSA FERREIRA, PEDRO GÓIS   


Costumes ISABEL BRANCO, INÊS MATA


Assistant directors PAULO MIL HOMENS, ANTÓNIO PINHÃO BOTELHO, ANA MARIZ


Makeup ÍRIS PELEIRA


Producer PAULO BRANCO


Co-producer CARLOS BEDRAN


A LEOPARDO FILMES
and ALFAMA FILMS PRODUCTION co-production


In association with CB PARTNERS, ANA PINHÃO MOURA PRODUÇÕES


With the support of ICA Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, Fundo de Apoio ao Turismo e Cinema, RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal

  • Venice Film Festival

    Official Selection - In Competition

  • 8th Moscow Portuguese Film Festival

    screened in Moscow, Siberia and St. Petersburg

  • Toronto International Film Festival

    Official Selection - Special Presentations

  • Oscars 2020

    Portuguese candidate for a nomination

  • Sophia Awards 2020 - Portuguese Academy of Cinema - Winner

    Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (main role), Best Actress (supporting role), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing

  • Premios Goya 2020

    Portuguese candidate for a nomination

  • 34º Mostra deValència

    In competition

  • Göteborg Film Festival 2020

    -

  • Dublin Film Festival 2020

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  • 25th Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris

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  • Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana

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  • Minsk International Film Festival Listapad

    -

  • Tallin Black Night Film Festival - PÖFF

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  • Macau Film Festival

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  • La Habana Film Festival

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  • European Union Showcase a Washington DC

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  • 43 Mostra Internacional de Cinema - São Paulo International Film Festival

    Brazil

Tiago Guedes

Director's statement

The burden of heritage : What makes us who we are?


The choices and options we take throughout life define us, but we carry on with us matters we don’t understand neither control. Something that makes us be and act, something that was born with us, and that was passed on to us, something we inherited. This film is about those invisible ties that define us and limit our behaviour.


The scenery of the film works almost as a metaphor for everything that happens to the protagonist, a charismatic man, one of those who are bigger than life. Both man and land are grand and imperial at the beginning, but as the events take place, they start to reveal their imperfections, their grey zones, and both start to collapse.


The Domain is kind of a huge isle inside a country dominated by a fascist dictatorship. It’s like a kingdom dominated by a progressive and a charismatic anarchist prince. But he will inevitably collide with the people’s will to change. A collision with the changes of history, with the passage of time. I actually do want to film these human and territorial transformations. Its consequences.


The landscape of The Domain will be the discovery of the immense marshlands and latifundia of Tagus’ south bank. A singular view: the earthy hill, the barns, the cornfields, the horses, the lakes in the sun will be the historical, political, financial stage of Portugal in the last 60 years, going through the Carnation Revolution (25th April 1974). They will also be the space of the obscure actions of the film characters consumed by their torments, social biases, greed, love and mismatches.


The universe of The Domain sends us back to several films I deeply love. Films of open spaces, westerns lost in the middle of nowhere with enigmatic characters who carry secrets, as in Leone’s and Anthony Mann’s films. At the same time, human relationships are explored in a way that is similar to the melodramas of Minelli and Kazan’s classic films.


A film of strong characters, great actors, strong interpretations, and the greatness of the landscapes that envelop them, and the consequences of the secrets they carry. The heritage left to us and the heritage we leave to others.


Tiago Guedes

News about A Herdade - The Domain

Tiago Guedes' The Domain released in the US

On Tuesday 13th, Tiago Guedes' The Domain is available on all streaming platforms.

Sophia Awards 2020: THE DOMAIN wins in 7 categories

Tiago Guedes' film won in the categories Best film, Best Director, Best actress, Best supporting actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best editing and Best cinematography. 

THE DOMAIN (A Herdade) keeps adding up

After the world première at the Venice Film Festival’s Competition, where it went on to TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival, The Domain, by Tiago Guedes, is the Portuguese candidate for a Goya Awards nomination in 2020, as well as the Portuguese candidate for an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film.

Press review

An extraordinary saga by Tiago Guedes

João Barrento, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias

Remarkable portrait of a patriarchal fiefdom gradually being eaten away from both outside and in

Lee Marshall, Screen International

A torrential film. An ambitious oeuvre

Andrea Chimento, Il Sole 24 Ore

João Lança Morais’s cinematography has an undeniable formal beauty

Jay Weissberg, Variety

A Herdade is an artistic victory, while looking in eyes the audience

Marta Santos, Revista Sábado

Guedes finds precisely the right tone for the material, which is slightly starker than pure realism. It lifts the clan and its troubles from their everyday plane into the realm of something more timeless and almost mythical, much like [Eça de] Queiroz

Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter

A great tittle of the Competition (…) It is extraordinary to see [Tiago] Guedes' film at its exponential 164-minute length, all at once, immersed in the immensity of the silent and wonderful nature, suspended in the fluctuation of time

Davide Turrini, Il Fatto Quotidiano

Portuguese cinema proves that it is very much alive, in the endless process of resistance that it has been distinguished for

Eduardo Dâmaso, Sábado

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