The Jew

Name: The Jew
Director: Jom Tob Azulay
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-01-16
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 5.667
Cast: Felipe Pinheiro, Dina Sfat, José Lewgoy, Mário Viegas, José Neto

1996

1h 30m

Drama

Director: Jom Tob Azulay

Writers: Jom Tob Azulay, Gilvan Pereira

Overview

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.