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The Old Man of Belem

2014 film by Manoel de Oliveira

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17040507 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Old Man of Belem (Portuguese: O Velho do Restelo) is a 2014 Portuguese-French short film directed by Manoel de Oliveira.

Cast

Luís Miguel Cintra as Camões

Ricardo Trepa as Don Quixote

Diogo Dória as Teixeira de Pascoaes

Mário Barroso as Camilo Castelo Branco

Reception

It was screened at the Out of Competition section of the 71st Venice International Film Festival.

Editorial summary

“The Old Man of Belem” enters the record as 2014 film by Manoel de Oliveira. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Belem, film and Manoel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Belem, film and Manoel.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Old Man of Belem” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Belem, film and Manoel provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17040507. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Old Man of Belem”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Old Man of Belem primary sources, The Old Man of Belem archive and Belem research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Old Man of Belem” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.