Dom Roberto (1962)
The Puppeteer (1962)
Dom Roberto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 102 minutes
Released: 16 June 1966 (France)
User rating: 6,2 on 25
Directed by:
Ernesto de Sousa
Written by:
Alexandre O'Neill (poems), Leão Penedo (dialogue)
With:
Raul Solnado, Glicínia Quartin, Luís Cerqueira
Plot:
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...
Plot:
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...