Sostiene Pereira (Pereira prétend in French, Afirma Pereira in Portugal and Páginas da revolução in Brazil) is a 1995 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza.[1][2] It is based on Antonio Tabucchi's novel Sostiene Pereira.
Marcello Mastroianni won the David di Donatello as Best Actor.
In Lisbon, during the António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist who works in the culture section of a newspaper, discovers the real dark side of the regime when he meets and helps an anti-fascist young man, Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi).