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Frei Luís de Sousa (1950)

Frei Luís de Sousa (1950)

Drama Family History
Release Date: 1950, September 21
Directors: António Lopes Ribeiro
Countries: Portugal
Production: Lisboa Filme, Fundo do Cinema Nacional
Cast: João Villaret, Maria Olguim, Jaime Santos, María Dulce, Barreto Poeira, Tomás de Macedo, Raul de Carvalho, José Victor, José Amaro, Maria Sampaio

Overview:

Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, with whom she has a daughter, who is afflicted by a fatal illness. Now only the tutor Telmo Pais retains the hope that the lost husband is alive, a premonition that may be confirmed after two decades, with the arrival of a mysterious pilgrim...

Keywords:

family tragedy