SOUSA MARTINS

By Justine LEMAHIEU

UKBAR FILMES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018


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Caminhos do Cinema Português 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • PORTUGAL
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Justine LEMAHIEU
    • Producer(s)
    • Pandora DA CUNHA TELLES (UKBAR FILMES), Pablo IRAOLA (UKBAR FILMES), Adonis LIRANZA (QUILOMBO)
    • Synopsis
    • There is a saint in Portugal who has nothing to do with Catholicism. His name is Dr. Sousa Martins. Born in 1843, this doctor, in spite of his struggles to remain a man of science, has become the object of a deep religious cult, a popular cult practiced outside of any church or conventions. The statue erected in his memory in the center of Lisbon is the starting point of a journey, both personal and anthropological, that leads us to question our need for belief and its relation with healing.