

No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
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- Language
- Portuguese
- portugal
- warfare
- portuguese history
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FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival (Out of Competition)1 May 1990
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical24 May 1991
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1212 Oct 1990
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No, or the Vain Glory of Command was released on 12 October 1990.
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1- F4/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
1/1/2023
**One of Oliveira's best… but weak, fragile, boring and a little unpatriotic.** I already had the opportunity to see, and review here, more than one film by Manoel de Oliveira, and after having seen this film, I keep my ideas. I have absolutely nothing against the director, I really appreciate his tenacity, his passion for cinematographic art, the way he devoted himself to cinema in a country that never saw in cin…
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