O Fantasma

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.

Cast

Ricardo Meneses

as Sérgio

Beatriz Torcato

as Fátima

André Barbosa

as João

Eurico Vieira

as Virgilio

Joaquim Oliveira

as Mário

Florindo Lourenço

as Matos

Rodrigo Garín

as Young man in bathroom

Jorge Almeida

as Police 1

Maria Paola Porru

as João's mother

Luis Zorro

as Young man in Sérgio's room

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