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* YourCheatingHeart: Estefania was in a relationship with Jorge but then started seeing Amadeu too.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mendez was a brutal secret policeman under the Salazar regime, but deeply loved by his granddaughter. She was distraught after finding out about what he did in the past.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joao was tortured by having his hands broken to get information from him the secret police were seeking.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joao was tortured by having his hands broken to get information from him the secret police were seeking. He didn't break though.

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* CessationOfExistence: {{Discussed}} by Amadeu while giving his speech in the church. He feels that eternal life would in fact be ''worse'' than this, saying it would devalue present existence and could be unbearably tedious.

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* CessationOfExistence: {{Discussed}} by Amadeu while giving his speech in the church. He feels that eternal life would in fact be ''worse'' than this, saying it would devalue present existence and could be unbearably tedious.unbearable.
* CorruptChurch: Amadeu denounces the Catholic Church in Portugal for supporting the Salazar regime.


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* MaybeEverAfter: It's implied at the end that Raimund and Martina may eventually get together.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Mendez let Estefania go across the border to Spain after Amadeu invokes this when the Portuguese border guards held them up.


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* YourCheatingHeart: Estefania was in a relationship with Jorge but then started seeing Amadeu too.

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* TheButcher: Mendez the secret policeman was called "the Butcher of Lisbon".



* DrivenToSuicide: Catarina tried to kill herself when she found out her beloved grandfather used to be a brutal secret policeman under the Salazar regime in Portugal known as "the Butcher of Lisbon". Stefania's father also killed himself to escape the pain of his illness, though it was called an accident given the stigma on suicide.



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her. Prado, though he knew what was at stake, just couldn't bear sacrificing her like that ("One in exchange for a million... we can't think like that, can we?"), so he smuggled her across the border to Spain where she became a professor at the university of Salamanca.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her. Prado, though he knew what was at stake, just couldn't bear sacrificing her like that ("One in exchange for a million... we can't think like that, can we?"), so he smuggled her across Estefania over the border to Spain where she became a professor at the university of Salamanca.
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* TranslationConvention: It's unclear, though most of the time the characters are apparently ''not'' speaking English, but rather Portuguese and perhaps German in Bern.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joao was tortured by having his fingers broken to get information from him the secret police were seeking.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joao was tortured by having his fingers hands broken to get information from him the secret police were seeking.
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* SecretPolice: They were the terror of Portugal under Porfirio Salazar, shown as ruthlessly torturing Joao for information. As resistance against the regime grows, the secret policeman who tortured him is then beaten up. Amadeu gets the brunt of the assailants' anger for treating him afterward.

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The film consts of a Swiss teacher who saves a woman's life while going to work,and then abandons his teaching career to embark on an adventure in order to find out more about the musterious woman and the book she had with her before disapearing.

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The film consts of follows a Swiss teacher who saves a woman's life while going to work,and work, and then abandons his teaching career to embark on an adventure in order to find out more about the musterious mysterious woman and the book she had with her before disapearing.disappearing.



* CessationOfExistence: {{Discussed}} by Amadeu while giving his speech in the church. He feels that eternal life would in fact be ''worse'' than this, saying it would devalue present existence and could be unbearably tedious.



* LaResistance: This movie, set during the dictatorship of Salazar in Portugal, features one of the most relevant groups throughout the film.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her. Prado, though he knew what was at stake, just couldn't bear sacrificing her like that ("One in exchange for a million... we can't think like that, can we?"), so he smuggled her across the border to Spain where she became a professor at the university of Salamaca.

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* HollywoodAtheist: {{Zigzagged}}. Amadeu makes no secret about his dislike for the notions of God and immortality, but he also appreciates the Bible's poetry, along with being an overall good man.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joao was tortured by having his fingers broken to get information from him the secret police were seeking.
* LaResistance: This movie, set partly during the dictatorship of Salazar in Portugal, features one of the most relevant groups throughout the film.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her. Prado, though he knew what was at stake, just couldn't bear sacrificing her like that ("One in exchange for a million... we can't think like that, can we?"), so he smuggled her across the border to Spain where she became a professor at the university of Salamaca.Salamanca.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her. Prado, though he knew what was at stake, just couldn't bear sacrificing her like that ("One in exchange for a million... we can't think like that, can we?"), so he smuggled her across the border to Spain where she became a professor at the university of Salamaca.
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* FictionalDocument: The writings of Amadeu de Prado, a doctor who wanted to be a writer but went into medicine inspired by his sick father.


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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prado had a childhood friend, Jorge/George. It was actually this friend who got Prado into the resistance, but the relationship broke over a woman they both loved and who had an excellent memory. Jorge said she had to be killed lest she get into the hands of the regime because if they got her to talk the whole network would go down with her.
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A 2013 film directed by Bille August and starring JeremyIrons, based on the book of the same name.

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A 2013 film directed by Bille August and starring JeremyIrons, Creator/JeremyIrons, based on the book of the same name.

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* LaResistance: Set during the dictatorship of Salazar in Portugal, one of the most relevant groups throught the film.

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* LaRésistance: Set during the dictatorship of Salazar in Portugal.

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* LaRésistance: EstablishingCharacterMoment: Our first introduction to Raimund is him playing chess alone.
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Set during the dictatorship of Salazar in Portugal.Portugal, one of the most relevant groups throught the film.

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a 2013 film directed by Bille August and starring /JeremyIrons, based on the book of the same name.

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a 2013 film directed by Bille August and starring /JeremyIrons, based on the book of the same name.

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