The Sound of the Shaking Earth
1990, Portuguese. Directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes.
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Portuguese
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Rita Azevedo GomesDirector
- José Mário BrancoAlberto
- Manuela de FreitasIsabel
- Miguel Gonçalves MendesLuciano
- Sara MarquesGirl
- Miguel SimãoCipriana
- João Bénard da CostaProfessor
- Miguel SimãoCipriano
- Jean-Pierre TailhadeJean-Pierre
- Conceição GuerraMaria
- Paulo RochaHostel Doorman
- Francisco MarinhoSailor
- Paulo Sousa RochaBooks Salesman
Details
- Released
- 22 October 1990
- Original title
- O Som da Terra a Tremer
- Country
- Portugal
- Written by
- Rita Azevedo Gomes
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth runs 93 minutes (1h 33m).
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 22 October 1990. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Sound of the Shaking Earth?
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Who directed The Sound of the Shaking Earth?
The Sound of the Shaking Earth (1990) was directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes and stars José Mário Branco, Manuela de Freitas, Miguel Gonçalves Mendes.