A Canção de Lisboa

A Canção de Lisboa (English: The Song of Lisbon) is a Portuguese film comedy from 1933.

Action

The Lisbon Student Vasco Leitão lives off the money his aunts grants from the Trás -os- Montes region far away. This support her nephew in the belief that he was a diligent student of medicine. Vasco, however, prefer to keep near handsome young ladies of the neighborhood, in particular that of Alice. Her father, the tailor Caetano, this flirtation, however, disapproved of the precarious financial situation and of lifestyle Vasco.

The carefree life Vasco seems to come to an end when he falls through in their final exams on the same day receives a letter from his aunt, who want to travel to the capital for the first time to visit him.

Reception

The film Tobis Portuguesa film company was advertised as the first Portuguese film completely Portuguese production. The first sound film of the land was previously Maria Severa in 1931.

The scale as carefree comedy film is still one of the most popular representatives of the Portuguese cinema of the 1930s and 40s, the heyday he initiated. In particular, the known from the revue theater actor Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa and António Silva made ​​the film a success and were in turn. Subsequently to successful and still popular today actors The emphasis of motifs typical of the traditional district of Lisbon in scene decor and songs, along with a series of comic scenes and dialogues, made ​​the film a success. The now well-known director Manoel de Oliveira had here in a supporting role one of his initial acting roles.

The film was shown several times on public television RTP and, after restoration by the Cinemateca Portuguesa, repeatedly re-released by Lusomundo, first as a VHS tape, and since 2001 several times on DVD.

Filipe La Feria 2005 staged on the basis of the movie of the same name musical on Lisbon Politeama, which was first shown in 2008 RTP television.

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