Dom Roberto

Dom Roberto

1962 · 102 min · ★ 6.8 · Comedy, Drama

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...

Directed by Ernesto de Sousa · Written by Leão Penedo

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Raul Solnado João Barbelas / Dom Roberto
Glicínia Quartin Maria
Luís Cerqueira Gabriel
Costa Ferreira Amâncio
Rui Mendes Serafim
Fernanda Alves Ivone
Olga da Fonseca Mariana
Carlos Fernando Carlitos
Nicolau Breyner Man in black
Adelaide João Vizinha
Benjamim Falcão
Luís Alberto

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In 1969, Ernesto de Sousa planned an experimental film in which Almada Negreiros would be protagonist. He raised funds, filmed Almada, interviewed him and worked on this multimedia project for several years, even after the artist's death. The result was a complex artistic work, with three simultaneous projections of slides and film, music by Jorge Peixinho and the incorporation of other projects by Ernesto de Sousa. In a text titled "Anticinema" he would write: "i do not make a movie / about almada / i make a movie with almada".

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