Cláudio da Silva

Born in Montemor-o-Velho, around 1510, the portuguese Fernão Mendes Pinto became known for his biographic work "Peregrinação" (Pilgrimage), where he recounts one of the Portuguese voyages through the East. (Público.pt)

Literary adaptation which imagines the last months, in 1936, of Fernando Pessoa using the name Ricardo Reis: Against the European politics of that year he has romantic encounters at a hotel in a constantly rainy Lisbon.

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.