Dom Roberto

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 30, 1962

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken languages

Portuguese

Countries

Portugal

Production

Cooperativa do Espectador

Cast

Raul Solnado,Luís Cerqueira,Nicolau Breyner,Olga da Fonseca,Benjamim Falcão,Fernanda Alves,Costa Ferreira,Luís Alberto,Rui Mendes,Adelaide Joãoand 2 more

Director

Ernesto de Sousa

Writer

Alexandre O'Neill,Leão Penedo

Cinematography

Abel Escoto

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0055917