Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
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| Directing | Manoel de Oliveira | Director |
| Writing | Manoel de Oliveira | Writer |
| Art | Zé Branco | Production Design |
| Editing | Valérie Loiseleux | Editor |
| Sound | Jean-François Auger | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Emmanuel Nuñes | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dante Trani | Key Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Renato Berta | Director of Photography |
| Production | Paulo Branco | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Isabel Favila | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ana Lorena | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Davide Trani | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Production | Élisabeth Bocquet | Production Manager |
| Production | António Gonçalo | Production Manager |
| Production | Paula Ribas | Production Secretary |
| Directing | João Milagre | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | José Maria Vaz da Silva | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Fernando Areal | Property Master |
| Sound | Nicolas Becker | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Michel Filippi | ADR Supervisor |
| Sound | Pedro Melo | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Jean-Paul Mugel | Sound |
| Camera | Peer Menke | Steadicam Operator |
| Camera | Jacques Monge | Steadicam Operator |
| Camera | Paulo Miguel Rosa | Grip |
| Sound | Pierre-Yves Artaud | Musician |
| Sound | Fabrice Bollon | Conductor |
| Sound | Gérard Buquet | Musician |
| Sound | Ernesto Molinari | Musician |
| Sound | Claire Talibart | Musician |
| Directing | Júlia Buisel | Continuity |
| Production | Pedro Madeira | Production Assistant |
| Crew | Jacques Parsi | Translator |