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A Canção de Lisboa (lit. Lisbon Song) is a Portuguese film comedy from 1933, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana Maria, Artur Rodrigues, Coralia Escobar, Eduardo Fernandes, Elvira Coutinho, Fernanda Campos, Francisco Costa, Henrique Alves, Ivone Fernandes, José Victor, Júlia da Assunção, Manoel de Oliveira, Manuel Santos Carvalho, Maria Albertina, Maria da Luz, Silvestre Alegrim, Sofia Santos, Teresa Gomes and Zizi Cosme.
Director Manoel de Oliveira had a minor role.
It was the second Portuguese sound feature film (the first was A Severa; a 1931 biopic of the fado singer Maria Severa Onofriana). In fact, A Canção de Lisboa was the first sound feature fully produced in Portugal, in the labs of Lisboa Filme and with Tobis equipment.
Among the team were some of the greatest names of Portuguese culture of the day, such as painter Carlos Botelho (credited as assistant director) and the poet José Gomes Ferreira (editor assistant). Painter Almada Negreiros was the author of both promotional posters.
A Canção de Lisboa is still one of the best loved films in Portugal, with several of its lines and songs still quoted.
Original Release
11/07/1933
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vasco Santana | Vasco Leitão |
Beatriz Costa | Alice |
António Silva | Caetano / Alfaiate Caetano |
Teresa Gomes | Eugénia / Tia do Vasco |
Sofía Santos | Maria Perpétua / Tia do Vasco |
Alfredo Silva | Sapateiro |
Ana María | Maria da Graça / Ana da Garcia - Namorada do Carlos |
Manoel de Oliveira | Carlos |
Eduardo Fernandes | Quincas / Quicas |
Silvestre Alegrim | empregado do retiro / Criado do retiro |
Directors
Writers
José Cottinelli Telmo, José Galhardo
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vasco Santana | Vasco Leitão |
Beatriz Costa | Alice |
António Silva | Caetano / Alfaiate Caetano |
Teresa Gomes | Eugénia / Tia do Vasco |
Sofía Santos | Maria Perpétua / Tia do Vasco |
Alfredo Silva | Sapateiro |
Ana María | Maria da Graça / Ana da Garcia - Namorada do Carlos |
Manoel de Oliveira | Carlos |
Eduardo Fernandes | Quincas / Quicas |
Silvestre Alegrim | empregado do retiro / Criado do retiro |
Manuel Santos Carvalho | dono do retiro de fados / Dono do retiro |
Henrique Alves | |
Artur Rodrigues | |
Júlia da Assunção | (as Julia Assunção) |
Maria Albertina | fadista |
Francisco Costa | |
Jose Vitor | an examination professor / (as José Victor) |
Sebastião Ribeiro | |
José Santos Alcibiado | (as José Santos Alcibiades) |
Mariana Alves | Folk Singer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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João Ortigao Ramos | Producer |