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Dom Roberto

Dom Roberto

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 30, 1962

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

Dom Roberto

Production Companies

Cooperativa do Espectador

Director

Ernesto de Sousa

Description

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...