Manoel's Destinies (French: Les Destins de Manoel; Portuguese: Os Destinos de Manuel) is a 1984/1985 French-Portuguese children's fantasy film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was shot on 16 mm film, a co-production of Les Films du Passage, Rita Filmes, and RTP, in association with Revcom Télévision.[1]
There are multiple versions of this work. Most commonly available is the 1984 French-dubbed TV miniseries that was broadcast in three episodes under the title L'Île aux merveilles de Manoël (roughly 150 minutes). The Portuguese-language version was broadcast as four episodes under the title Aventure au Madeira.[2][3] Film festival programmes have listed it under different titles, such as Manuel de l’île des merveilles or Manuel na Ilha das Maravilhas.[1][4][2][5]
Manuel de l’île des merveilles first screened on 1 February 1985 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, winning the KNF Award.[6] Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of the film's champions, described it as "three 50-minute episodes".[7] It was screened later in the same month at the "International Forum" at the Berlin International Film Festival.[8] A two-hour cut under the title Les Destins de Manoel screened in May 1985 at the Cannes Film Festival as part of "Perspectives du cinéma français".[9][10]
In 2013, the Cinemateca Portuguesa screened the 138-minute Portuguese-language version.[3] In 2024, they screened under the title Les Destins de Manoel / Os Destinos de Manuel a digital copy of the complete and commercially unreleased 170-minute Portuguese-language version that they hold.[11][12]
It is divided into three parts:[8]
The fourth episode of the Portuguese TV miniseries was titled "Tragédia Maderense".[2]
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