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Capa de Baltasar and Blimunda

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Baltasar and Blimunda

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In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king's convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine-the Passarola-and two lovers' dream of flight sets them apart.

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In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king's convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine-the Passarola-and two lovers' dream of flight sets them apart.

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"In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king's convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine-the Passarola-and two lovers' dream …"

— Margaret

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