Tertuliano buys a fake beard and goes to meet António. They decide to meet at António's country home in a week. Initially, António dismisses Tertuliano and refuses to meet, but later contacts him and agrees. António's wife answers and mistakes Tertuliano's voice for her husband's. After acquiring the actor's phone number and address, Tertuliano stalks his double, António Claro, and eventually telephones him. His relationship with his girlfriend, Maria da Paz, suffers because he refuses to disclose his motives to her. Posing as a film student and using his girlfriend's address, he sends a letter to the production company asking to be put in contact with the actor. Tertuliano becomes obsessed with meeting the actor and spends weeks discovering the actor's name. One day Tertuliano rents a movie recommended by a colleague and sees an actor who looks exactly like him. Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced high school history teacher who spends his nights reading about Mesopotamian civilizations. In Portuguese, the title is literally "The Duplicated Man." It was translated into English and published as The Double in 2004. The Double ( Portuguese: O Homem Duplicado) is a 2002 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
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