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Dom Roberto (1962)

Dom Roberto (1962)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1962, May 30
Directors: Ernesto de Sousa
Countries: Portugal
Production: Cooperativa do Espectador
Cast: Costa Ferreira, Rui Mendes, Fernanda Alves, Nicolau Breyner, Adelaide João, Carlos Fernando, Raul Solnado, Glicínia Quartin, Luís Cerqueira, Olga da Fonseca

Overview:

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...