Rite of Spring (film)

This article is about the 1963 Portuguese film. For the 2011 American film, see Rites of Spring (film).

Rite of Spring (Portuguese: Acto da Primavera) is a 1963 Portuguese docudrama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira, his second feature, and co-written by Francisco Vaz De Guimaraes.

Rite of Spring
Directed by	Manoel de Oliveira
Written by	Manoel de Oliveira Francisco Vaz De Guimaraes
Produced by	Manoel de Oliveira
Starring	Nicolau Nunes Da Silva Ermelinda Pires Maria Madalena Amélia Chaves Luis De Sousa Francisco Luís
Cinematography	Manoel de Oliveira
Edited by	Manoel de Oliveira
Release date	1963 (1963)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Portugal
Language	Portuguese

Poet and director António Reis served as assistant director, and his influence can be felt deeply throughout. The film was included in the 2012 program The School of Reis.^[1]

Synopsis

The inhabitants of Curalha, a small village in western Portugal, perform the Passion of Jesus every year according to text from about the 16th century, a tradition upon which Oliveira stumbled during the production of a film in 1963. The film is also remembered for "a furious apocalyptic montage that links Christ's death to the violence and lunacy of the Vietnam era".^[2]

See also

• Docufiction
• List of docufiction films
• Ethnofiction