In The Green Years, nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as ashoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes aregular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life. Neverreleased in the U.S., Rocha's debut film, gloriously shot in black-and-white, is an extraordinary andhaunting coming-of-age tale.

GENRE: Drama, Romance
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 30m
RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
STARRING: Isabel Ruth, Rui Gomes, Paulo Renato, Manoel de Oliveira, Óscar Acúrcio
DIRECTOR(S): Paulo Rocha
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WRITER(S): Paulo Rocha
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