In 1997 Oliveira made '' Voyage to the Beginning of the World '' ( '' Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo '' ) , which was the final film of Italian film star Marcello Mastroianni . In the film Mastroianni plays an aging film director named Manoel who travels on a road trip across Northern Portugal with French film actor Afonso ( Jean-Yves Gautier ) and two other young companions , Judite ( Leonor Silveira ) and Duarte ( Diogo Dória ) . Afonso wants to see the Portuguese village that his father grew up in and see the relatives that he has never met . On the way , Manoel stops at several locations on the road that he remembers from his childhood , only to find them much different than he had remembered . The film is autobiographical in that the locations on the road are real locations from Oliveira 's childhood . The film is also based on the experiences of actor Yves Afonso , whose father had immigrated from Portugal to France and who had met his long lost relatives during a French-Portuguese co-production in 1987 . The film was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Prize and a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury . It won other awards at the 1997 Haifa International Film Festival and the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival
1997 Cannes Film Festival
1997 Cannes Film Festival
Manoel de Oliveira