My Case (Mon Cas) 38 years old

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Credits

Bulle Ogier as Actrice n° 1

Teresa Madruga as Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)

Henri Serre as Voix-off (voice)

Axel Bogousslavsky as L'Employé

Luís Miguel Cintra as L'Intrus

Fred Personne as L'Auteur

My Case Cast

Name	Character
Bulle Ogier She was 47, now 85 years old	as Actrice n° 1
Teresa Madruga She was 33, now 71 years old	as Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)
Henri Serre He was 55, now 93 years old	as Voix-off (voice)
Axel Bogousslavsky He was 49, now 87 years old	as L'Employé
Luís Miguel Cintra He was 37, now 75 years old	as L'Intrus
Fred Personne He was 53, 81 years old when he died	as L'Auteur
Grégoire Oestermann He was 33, now 71 years old	as Le projectionniste

My Case Crew

Name	Department
Mário Barroso as Director of Photography. He was 39 (now 77) years old	Camera
Samuel Beckett as Writer. He was 80 (83) years old when He died	Writing
Joaquim Pinto as Sound Designer. He was 29 (now 67) years old	Sound

My Case (38 years)

Release day: Thursday, September 25, 1986
Runtime: 91 minutes