Dom Roberto

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...

• Leão PenedoScreenplay
• Ernesto de SousaDirector
• Alexandre O'NeillWriter

• Raul SolnadoJoão Barbelas / Dom Roberto
• Glicínia QuartinMaria
• Luís CerqueiraGabriel
• Costa FerreiraAmâncio
• Rui MendesSerafim
• Fernanda AlvesIvone
• Olga da FonsecaMariana
• Carlos FernandoCarlitos
• Nicolau BreynerMan in black
• Adelaide JoãoVizinha
• Benjamim FalcãoCast
• Luís AlbertoCast