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Afirma Pereira   1996         N/R, 104 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama aka: Pereira Declares According to Pereira Director: Roberto Faenza   Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniel Auteuil, Stefano Dionisi, Nicoletta Braschi, Marthe Keller, Joaquim de Almeida, Teresa Madruga, Nicolau Breyner, Filipe Ferrer, Joao Grosso   Elderly Joe Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni) is a dying man, burying his head in the sand, ignoring Spain's civil war and the Fascist power structure in Portugal—no easy task for the editor of the cultural section of a Lisbon daily newspaper. But when a young Italian subversive, Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi), comes on board, he forces Pereira to reckon with the political world.