A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink. The inspector becomes inextricably entangled in the baron’s world.
Cinematography
Shadows so thick you could spread them on bread.
Acting
Nuno Melo's baron: charm as weapon, prediction as trap.
Direction
Pêra's camera crawls like something with too many legs.
Director
Edgar Pêra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Branquinho da Fonseca's 1942 novella, banned by Salazar's regime for depicting rural aristocracy as decadent parasites—Pêra's remake restores the political bite.
Edgar Pêra shot in Academy ratio (1.37:1) to trap viewers in the baron's claustrophobic manor alongside the inspector.
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