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The Duellists
1977 · Drama · War
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27 votes
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
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Filipe Manuel Neto
January 1, 2023
**One of Oliveira's best… but weak, fragile, boring and a little unpatriotic.** I already had the opportunity to see, and review here, more than one film by Manoel de Oliveira, and after having seen this film, I keep my ideas. I have absolutely nothing against the director, I really appreciate his tenacity, his passion for cinematographic art, the way he devoted himself to cinema in a country that never saw in cinema…
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