Aniki-Bóbó

Aniki-Bóbó, Portugal, 1942, 71', OV with spanish subtitles, DCP

Director: Manoel de Oliveira, Screenplay: Manoel de Oliveira basado en una novela del Dr. Rodrigues de Freitas, Photography: António Mendes, Music: Jaime Silva Filho, Cast: Nascimento Fernandez, Fernanda Matos, Horácio Silva.

And from his latest film (the last one he wanted us to see) to Oliveira’s first feature film, when neorealism was not yet "invented" but was already happening on some cinema screens of the world: in this case, on the streets of Oporto, on the banks of the River Douro, with a camera in black and white that follows Eduardinho, Carlitos and Terezinha, a group of children living, singing and playing to the cry of: ¡Aniki-Bóbó, Aniki-Bóbó!

A film programmed in our cycle on images of childhood and youth: The atomic age.