Author: Charles Durning

Format: Import

Release Date: 2014-01-28

Details: In Bern, Latin teacher Raimond Gregorius meets a Portuguese woman who is about to jump into the waves of the Aare. Determined, he intervenes and saves the young woman. He brings her to the school from where she disappears however a few moments later. All that remains of her is a raincoat in which he finds a book by a Portuguese author and a train ticket to Lisbon. Raimond abandons everything and takes the night train to Lisbon to learn more about the writer who asks in his book precisely the questions that have been bothering him for years. Raimund Gregorius is a high-school Latin teacher in Bern. His life is transformed following a mysterious encounter with a young Portuguese woman, whom he manages to save from jumping to her death in the icy waters of the Aare. Raimund is intrigued but the woman disappears, leaving behind her coat. Inside it he discovers a book by a Portuguese writer, which contains a train ticket. He spontaneously decides to use it, setting off on an adventurous journey to Lisbon. Ultimately his journey transcends time and space, touching on matters of history, philosophy, and medicine, encountering love and evolving into a liberating search for the true meaning of life.

UPC: 824255010078

EAN: 0824255010078

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood