Original subtitles

"When the father creator"

"saw the creature which he had made moving and living,"

"the created image of the eternal gods,"

"he rejoiced,"

"and in his joy,"

"determined to make the copy still more like the original;"

"and as this was eternal,"

"he sought to make the universe eternal,"

"so far as might be."

"Now the nature of the ideal being was everlasting,"

"but to bestow this attribute in its fulness upon a creature was impossible."

"Wherefore he resolved to have…"

"… a moving image of eternity."

It's over!

Good morning, Ti Miguel.

What have you got for us there?

A Christian, in need of burial.

Burial, here?

I don't know if that's allowed…

It was here he died.

What's the matter, private? What does he want?

What's this body doing here?

One of the workmen, sir… wants to bury this deceased.

Here?!

This isn't a cemetery, uncle. No one gets buried here.

Know you, sir, that I raised four sons.

The oldest was killed by the French two years ago in Vimeiro.

The two youngest, taken by the plague a short time ago.

One remained.

He fell beneath those boulders, yesterday.

He was not yet eighteen.

A year and a half he worked at my side, sun up to sundown,

every day God sent, on these works you had us build.

This is where he worked.

This is where he died.

And it's here, as I see it, with your permission…

… it's fair he be laid to rest.

Let him.

Detachment…

Shoulder…

Arms!

Present…

Arms!

Slope…

Arms!

The French army crossed the border in April 1811,

quitting Portuguese territory for good.

They left behind a devastated,

exhausted and radically transformed country.

Cast (in order of appearance)

With the complicity of

And