A Canção de Lisboa (1933)
- Directed by
- José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo
- Genre
- comedy film, romance film
- Country
- Portugal
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- M/6
- Rating
- 8.5 of 10 from 44 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A musical comedy set in Lisbon about a man who pretends to be a medical student to impress a wealthy family. He navigates a series of farcical situations while trying to win the love of a young woman.
lightheartedwhimsicalupbeatcharmingnostalgicmusicalhumorousplayful
What happens
A Canção de Lisboa (lit. The Song of Lisbon) is a 1933 Portuguese musical comedy film, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana Maria, Artur Rodrigues, Coralia Escobar, Eduardo Fernandes, Elvira Coutinho, Fernanda Campos, Francisco Costa, Henrique Alves, Ivone Fernandes, José Victor, Júlia da Assunção, Manoel de Oliveira, Manuel Santos Carvalho, Maria Albertina, Maria da Luz, Silvestre Alegrim, Sofia Santos, Teresa Gomes and Zizi Cosme. It was the second Portuguese sound feature film (the first was A Severa; a 1931 biopic of the fado singer Maria Severa Onofriana). In fact, A Canção de Lisboa was the first sound feature fully produced in Portugal, in the labs of Lisboa Filme and with Tobis equipment. A Canção de Lisboa premiered at the São Luís Theatre in Lisbon on 7 November 1933, the first in a long line of popular comedies generically referred to as the comédia à portuguesa. Among the team were some of the greatest names of Portuguese culture of the day, such as painter Carlos Botelho (credited as assistant director) and the poet José Gomes Ferreira (editor assistant). The artist Almada Negreiros was the author of both promotional posters. A Canção de Lisboa remains a classic of cinema in Portugal, and several of its lines and songs have entered common parlance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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