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Frei Luís de Sousa (1950)
Directed by António Lopes Ribeiro
Drama, Family, History · 1h 58m
Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, with whom she has a daughter, who is afflicted by a fatal illness. Now only the tutor Telmo Pais retains the hope that the lost husband is alive, a premonition that may be confirmed after two decades, with the arrival of a mysterious pilgrim...
Cast
Maria Sampaio
D. Madalena de Vilhena
Raul de Carvalho
D. Manuel de Sousa Coutinho
María Dulce
D. Maria de Noronha
João Villaret
Telmo Pais
Barreto Poeira
Romeiro / D. João de Portugal
T
Tomás de Macedo
Dom Jorge
José Amaro
Miranda
Maria Olguim
Doroteia
J
Jaime Santos
Padre de Benfica
José Victor
Irmão Leigo
Crew
- Director
- António Lopes Ribeiro
- Screenplay
- António Lopes Ribeiro
- Writer
- Almeida Garrett
- Director of Photography
- Aquilino Mendes, Mário Moreira
- Editor
- António Lopes Ribeiro
Details
- Release date
- 1950-09-21
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, History
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- Portuguese
- Countries
- Portugal
- Production
- Lisboa Filme, Fundo do Cinema Nacional