In 1990 Oliveira made '' No , or the Vain Glory of Command '' ( '' Non , ou a Vã Gloria de Mandar '' ) , starring Luis Miguel Cintra , Diogo Dória and Leonor Silveira . The film depicts the military history of Portugal , focusing on its defeats more than its victories . The historical action include the assassination of Viriathus , the Battle of Toro , the Battle of Alcácer Quibir and the more recent Portuguese Colonial War . The one exception is the sequence that depicts the mythical Isle of Love , which celebrates Portuguese explorers and discoverers , not its military figures . The Isle of Love includes winged cupids , beautiful nymphs and the goddess Venus . The film was shown in competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival . Oliveira then made '' The Divine Comedy '' ( '' A Divina Comédia '' ) in 1991 . Set in a mental institution , the film is not an adaptation of Dante Alighieri 's famous work but is derived from stories in the Bible , José Régio 's play '' A Salvacao do Mundo '' , Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's '' Crime and Punishment '' and '' The Brothers Karamazov '' , and Friedrich Nietzsche 's '' Antichrist '' . Oliveira stated that all of the texts he uses " deal in some way with the problem of sin and the possibility of redemption , and in this sense they all derive ultimately from the same source . " The film stars Maria de Medeiros , Miguel Guilherme , Luís Miguel Cintra , Leonor Silveira and Diogo Dória and was shown in competition at the 1991 Venice Film Festival , where it won the Grand Special Jury Prize award
1991 Venice Film Festival
48th Venice International Film Festival
Manoel de Oliveira