Overview

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Top Cast

Bulle Ogier

Actrice n° 1

A

Axel Bogousslavsky

L'Employé

Luís Miguel Cintra

L'Intrus

Fred Personne

L'Auteur

W

Wladimir Ivanovsky

Le spectateur

H

Héloïse Mignot

Actrice nº 2

Grégoire Oestermann

Le projectionniste

Henri Serre

Voix-off (voice)

Teresa Madruga

Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)