The Satin Slipper

The film is set in the Spanish golden age. Doña Prouhèze is the wife of a nobleman. The man she loves deeply is Don Rodrigo. Rodrigo is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Prouhèze is sent to Africa. She is to govern the city of Mogador there. The two of them never come together again. Ten years pass. Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa. He looks for Prouhèze and learns that she has died. In the end he meets her daughter. The film is adapted from a play by Paul Claudel. It runs to nearly seven hours. It was screened at Venice in 1985. Luís Miguel Cintra and Patricia Barzyk appear in the four hundred and ten minute film, a French, Portuguese, German and Swiss co-production directed by Manoel de Oliveira.