【导演】:曼努埃尔·德·奥利维拉
【主演】: 里卡多·特雷普卡/路易斯·米格尔·辛特拉/格洛丽亚·德·马托斯/米格尔·古伊尔赫梅
【标签】: 剧情/历史
【制片地区/国家】:葡萄牙/法国
【年份】:2004
【语言】:葡萄牙语
【上映时间】: 2004-09-09
【片长】: 127
【原名】:O Quinto Império - Ontem Como Hoje
【又名】:The Fifth Empire Yesterday as Today/帝国近了
【评分】:豆瓣：0 ，IMDB：6.3
【IMDb链接】: tt0403439
在这部帝国近了剧情/历史片中,Not satisfied with just taking excursions through Europe's ancient landmarks (A Talking Picture, 28th HKIFF), this time the prolific, 96-years-old Portuguese director plunges us into a medieval Hamletian intrigue among Lisbon's most famous monasteries. A young monarch is obsessed with leaving his legacy by creating a mythical, utopian Fifth Empire, while his people are suffering from poverty. Is he insane? Or is he guided by the Holy Cobbler? Based upon the real-life mysteries behind King Sebastião, who perished in 1578 during a crusade in Morocco, this controversial parable redresses the Crusades as an inevitable clash between the West and Islam.
每年不來向迪奧里菲拉朝朝聖，就不是過電影節似的。幸好這個電影老將勇猛如故。前作《大浪淘沙》（28屆）娓娓談今日的恐怖主義襲地球，此作反其道而行，以古諷今重構十六世紀歷史神話裏好戰君王的心路歷程。神話在葡萄牙家傳戶曉：塞巴斯蒂安大帝為了圓其雄圖大國夢，不顧國民水深火熱，也不理朝中大臣的勸阻、弄臣的嘲笑，喪心病狂遠征回教徒。迪奧利菲拉招來大帝的心魔-擁有催眠異能的神秘角色，長期失眠的大帝終於睡了一覺，之後的一切，應驗了夢中預言。奇怪是回教神話裏，也存在同一人物，他騎?白馬來驅走惡魔，維護世界和平！
Source: 29th HKIFF 2005
