Vasco Santana
Vasco António Rodrigues Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema. He already had a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa, in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films.
A Song of Lisbon
as Vasco LeitãoVasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he...
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The Courtyard of the Ballads
as NarcisoA portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small...
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O Costa d'África
as Costa, Amadeu's uncleCosta is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by...
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Fado, a Singer's Story
as Joaquim MarujoAna Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado...
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Lisbon
as Customer at Fado's HouseFor Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But...
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Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
as uncreditedCaleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large...
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The Tyrannical Father
as Mestre José SantanaWhile rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a...
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Camões
as Mal-CozinhadoThe adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
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Eram Duzentos Irmãos
as Fernão Mentes MintoA man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to...
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O Dinheiro dos Pobres
as MarcosManuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him...
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Ribatejo
as ColorauIt is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the...
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Famalicão
as Narrator (voice)Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal.
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