What Shall I Do With This Sword?
1975 · 64 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 121 VOTES · DIR. João César Monteiro
Overview
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
Dialogue Timeline — 549 lines
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00:00:00 WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS SWORD?
00:08:58 What it's doing is making us spend a bit more and also starve a bit more.
00:11:10 The thing that impresses me is the age, that it's so old.
00:12:35 If anything... You know, troubles
00:15:24 Why not? I'm not at war now.
00:21:27 "I, so-and-so, came to your house." It's all the same to me.
00:23:08 "outside I'm just like the next guy."
00:24:38 Because once I met this guy
00:26:21 and often - this is no lie, people here can bear me out -
00:27:40 that have to work the street to make a living.
00:32:53 whatever its colours.
00:34:21 is the one that has most exploited our labour force.
00:39:02 A man has to react!
00:40:50 and said to me: "You kept your moustache because that fellow lost."
00:42:41 Victory comes hard, but it's ours, every day, every day!
00:44:32 together with the military forces
00:46:17 can mobilise and organise themselves and fight against foreign rule.
00:47:41 I worked for almost a month, man, a guy would work for a month, man
00:49:05 And at the end of the month, man
00:50:34 How we lived, especially in S. Tomé and Angola.
00:52:08 they dug holes 40 metres deep
00:53:30 were slaved and slaughtered at that moment.
00:54:49 that the struggle...
00:59:13 nothing to eat or drink.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed549
Dialogue density8.6 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:59:13
Production Record
DirectorJoão César Monteiro
LanguagePortuguese
IMDb votes121