Dom Roberto (1962) Online
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...
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Raul Solnado | - | João Barbelas / Dom Roberto |
| Glicínia Quartin | - | Maria |
| Luís Cerqueira | - | Gabriel |
| Costa Ferreira | - | Amâncio |
| Rui Mendes | - | Serafim |
| Fernanda Alves | - | Ivone |
| Olga da Fonseca | - | Mariana |
| Esperança Monteiro | ||
| Adelaide João | ||
| Nicolau Breyner | - | Man in black |
| Telmo Rendeiro | ||
| César Augusto | ||
| Clara Rocha | ||
| Benjamim Falcão | ||
| Julieta Cardoso |
Awards: Prix de la Jeune Critique et Prix de l'Association du Cinéma pour la Jeunesse au Festival de Cannes 1963.
The film is considered an innovative work, marking the beginning of the new-realism and the "Nouvelle Vague" in Portuguese Cinema, as the director had been exposed to it in Paris.
Only feature film of Ernesto de Sousa.