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Night Train to Lisbon

Year:

2013

Duration:

111 min

Genres:

Mystery | Romance | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

Bille August

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: Germany

Release Date: 2013-12-06

Filming Locations: Caxias, Portugal

Earnings

Opening Weekend: €14,585 (Netherlands) (28 July 2013)

Gross: $8,962,375 (Worldwide) (13 September 2013)

Cast

Actor

Character

Nicolau Breyner

Jeremy Irons

Raimund Gregorius

Mélanie Laurent

Young Estefania

Jack Huston

Amadeu

Martina Gedeck

Mariana

Tom Courtenay

Older João Eca

August Diehl

Young Jorge O'Kelly

Bruno Ganz

Older Jorge O'Kelly

Lena Olin

Older Estefania

Marco D'Almeida

Young João

Beatriz Batarda

Young Adriana

Christopher Lee

Father Bartolomeu

Charlotte Rampling

Older Adriana

Jane Thorne

Older Clotilde

Burghart Klaußner

Judge Prado

Adriano Luz

Mendez

Sarah Bühlmann

Catarina Mendez

Filipe Vargas

Young Father Bartolomeu

Ana Lúcia Palminha

Young Clotilde

João Lagarto

Border Police Sergeant

José Wallenstein

Pide Agent

Eloy Monteiro

Professor

Joaquim Leitão

Principal

Jean-Pierre Cornu

Shopkeeper

Hanspeter Müller

Mr. Kagi (as Hanspeter Müller-Drossart)

Dominique Devenport

Natalie

Max Hubacher

Another Student

Marçal Godinho

Gardener

Helena Afonso

Maria Prado

Bruno Salgueiro

Kicking Young Man

Maria d'Aires

Spitting Woman

Jorge Veríssimo

Men's Outfitter

Franco Moscon

Railwayman

Raquel Cipriano

(uncredited)

Vitor Pinto

Man (uncredited)

Esdras Silva

Rapaz Tocando Viola (uncredited)

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Trivia

There are some language issues in the movie that one could take as goofs. But in fact the movie takes English as a convention. The option to maintain portuguese where logical would had made it a portuguese film trough the entire flashback and even some present scenes. So, all the crocheter's do speak English, even if they should speak portuguese, or german. The reference to their actual language is made trough their accents. Thats why most of the actors playing portuguese- even Brits- do speak English with an effort to have the typical portuguese accent.

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Vanessa Redgrave was originally cast for the role of Adriana de Prado, however Charlotte Rampling replaced her.

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Goofs

The chess set has the knights and bishops reversed.

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The younger Estefania has two rather prominent moles on her neck and below her collar-bone. The older Estefania has none.

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Quotes

Raimund Gregorius: [to his opponent, after making a move in a chess game he is playing against himself] That'll get you thinking...

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Adriana de Prado: I believe you are looking for my brother.

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Raimund Gregorius: We threw a party for our colleagues... our friends. And she found this quote, from Pessoa: "The fields are greener in their description, than in their actual greenness." And somebody said: "Oh, that'a beautiful sentence" and I said: "Yes, but only a few people will ever understand it". And there was this terrible silence. And then she said, my wife: "And I suppose you are one of the chosen few?".

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