(DR) Aljubarrota Foundation
Nuno Álvares Pereira It is not about the battle, but it will only pass the interpretive center of the Battle of Aljubarrota.
The idea had already been announced in September 2022: a Movie about D. Nuno Álvares Pereira. Cooperation between Ourém City Council and Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation was signed almost three years ago.
Financial support from the Ourem Chamber of 30 thousand euros was provided. The movie show-which cost 1.4 million euros-is ready and will debut on Tuesday.
The debut date, June 24, coincides with the probable date of birth of Nuno Álvares Pereira, in 1360.
D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, the “Condestable”, He was a fearless knight, led several Portuguese victories in the fourteenth century and was Decisive in the Battle of Aljubarrotawhere Portugal defended its independence before and threat of Castile.
Nuno Álvares Pereira It’s the 45 -minute movie that portrays your life, in several facets. It is not about the battle, but will only pass the interpretative center of the Batalha de Aljubarrota. Only those who enter the center can see the movie.
António Ramalho, the president of the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation, remembers that Nuno Álvares Pereira is a “Absolutely unique figure In Portugal, on the role it had in the revolution of 1383-85 ″.
“First, as a Condestable, where he was a general, a soldier who was truly invincible, but especially a bold tactic builder, an absolutely uncommon level of preparation, and in the result. He always got the image of the invincible, because it was always invincible,” he recalled.
In addition, it had the “your figure of lord feudal Which somehow adapted to almost nonexistent feudalism in Portugal and, therefore, an adjustment that had to do even at the origin of Bragança’s house that he represented. ”
In addition, it had the “enormous curiosity” of being sanctified (Pope Benedict XVI), because “it is not very common for generals to be sanctified.” But recall, after the military life Nuno Álvares Pereira, became the “Santo Condestable”, or “Blessed Nuno de Santa Maria”-because he embraced religious life, had the Carmo Convent built in Lisbon, then entered the convent, where he would die; and donated all his goods.
António Ramalho is aware that this movie was expensive, but had a great help from the patron: they paid 69% of the cost of the movie.
It can now be seen as an “immersive, multimedia spectacle.”
