Film
Dom Roberto
1962Directed by Ernesto de Sousa
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
About Dom Roberto
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
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...
- Director
- Ernesto de Sousa
- Writers
- Leão Penedo
- Alexandre O'Neill
