Benilde or the Virgin Mother

Storyline

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.

• Released

  1975

• Runtime

  1h 52min

• Director

  Manoel de Oliveira

Genre

Drama

• Status

  Released

• Language

  Portuguese

• Production

  Tobis Portuguesa, Centro Português de Cinema (CPC)