Os Verdes Anos
- Isabel Ruth: Ilda
- Rui Gomes: Júlio
- Ruy Furtado: Raul
- Paulo Renato Afonso
- Harry Weeland: English
Os Verdes Anos ( German: " The Green Years " titles in the GDR. "Young Years ") is a major work of the new Portuguese film directed by Paulo Rocha from the year 1963.
Action
The 19 -year-old Julio comes from the countryside to the big city and starts a relationship with peers Ilda. Unable to find their way in the modern society, plagued by mistrust and disappointment, Julio ends relationship with Ilda dramatically.
Reception
The story is not told here as a simple melodrama, but as a story which shows the modernity and its problems. Júlio has come for economic reasons in the city. But it turns out for him as inhuman, and he is subject at the end of threatening and impersonal modernity, represented by him einkesselnde and anleuchtende cars on the road, after his fatal Kurzschluhandlung.
The film was appreciated by film critics as an indictment of the Estado Novo regime. It represents the good-natured Portuguese Júlio represent with traditional values and constricted world view, who wants to escape unprepared and against the run of history, caught off guard by the relentlessly onrushing modernity, back in his small rural world. He achieves this even at the cost of happiness in life and even human lives not. The constraints shown, both the emigration for economic reasons, as well as the inevitable military service in broken Portuguese Colonial War and the exploitation of modern workers shown ( eg Sunday work ) were seen as a criticism indirectly represented.
The novel point of view of the camera that shows the movements and looks exactly to the particular pace of the cut and the realistic, three-dimensional settings limited the film of the previous works of the Portuguese cinema from technically. After the Portuguese film had moved away more and more of the everyday reality of the Portuguese since the late 40s, this was the first time in a cinema that was with the actual situation in the country in line. Even if Manoel de Oliveira's Acto da Primavera ( rotated since 1959 and published in 1963 ) as a precursor applies, the international criticism sees only in Os Verdes Anos the first work of the new Portuguese film, the Cinema Novo.
The soundtrack by Carlos Paredes, who played contemporary sounds on the traditional Portuguese guitar, contributed by his sensitive composition and simultaneously soulful and clear presentation contributed to the success of the film at, and became popular.
The film won the Silver sail during the Locarno Film Festival in 1964, a price of the Film Festival 1965 in Acapulco, and an honorable mention at the Valladolid Film Festival in 1965.