The Jew

The Jew

Actors:  Felipe Pinheiro, Dina Sfat, José Lewgoy, Mário Viegas, José Neto, Edwin Luisi Directors:  Jom Tob Azulay

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.