The Jew

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jom Tob Azulay

Status Released

Release Date 1996-01-16

Storyline

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.