A Canção de Lisboa
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A Canção de Lisboa |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo |
| script | José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo |
| production | João Ortigão Ramos |
| music |
Raúl Portela Jaime Silva Filho |
| camera |
Henri Barreyre César de Sá Octávio Bobone |
| cut |
Tonka Taldy José Ângelo Cottineli Telmo |
| occupation | |
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A Canção de Lisboa (English: The Song of Lisbon) is a Portuguese comedy film from 1933.
action
The Lisbon student Vasco Leitão lives from the donations of money from his aunts from the far-away Trás-os-Montes region. They support their nephew in the belief that he is a hardworking medical student. Vasco, however, prefers to be around the pretty young ladies in the neighborhood, especially Alice's. Her father, the tailor Caetano, disapproves of this flirtation in view of the precarious financial circumstances and the way of life of Vascos.
The carefree life of Vasco seems to come to an end when he fails the final exams and on the same day receives a letter from his aunts who want to travel to the capital for the first time to visit him.
reception
The Tóbis Portuguesa film company was advertised as the first Portuguese film made entirely from Portuguese production . The first sound film in the country was Maria Severa in 1931.
The film, designed as a light-hearted comedy, is still one of the most popular representatives of Portuguese cinema of the 1930s and 40s, the heyday of which it initiated. In particular, the actors Vasco Santana , Beatriz Costa and António Silva , well-known from the revue theater , made the film a success and subsequently became successful actors that are still popular today. The emphasis on typical motifs of the traditional districts of Lisbon in the scenery and songs, along with a number of comical scenes and dialogues, made the film a success. The now well-known director Manoel de Oliveira had one of his early acting roles in a supporting role.
The film was shown several times on the public television service RTP and, after restoration by the Cinemateca Portuguesa , was re-released several times by Lusomundo, first as a VHS cassette and since 2001 several times as a DVD .
In 2005 Filipe La Féria staged a musical of the same name based on the film at the Teatro Politeama in Lisbon , which was shown for the first time on RTP television in 2008.
A remake of the same name was released in 2016 . Directed by Pedro Varela and produced by Leonel Vieira , who previously made two very successful remakes of Portuguese comedies from the 1930s and 1940s, the remake was also a blockbuster on the small Portuguese market, with 187,596 viewers and revenues of almost one million euros .
Web links
- A Canção de Lisboa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in the Infopédia , the Internet encyclopedia of the Porto Editora
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.amordeperdicao.pt ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 25, 2012
- ↑ A. Murtinheira / I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 44f ( ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 )
- ↑ www.diariodigital.sapo.pt , accessed December 25, 2012
- ↑ www.imdb.de , accessed on December 25, 2012
- ↑ Boxoffice Ranking List 2016 , PDF available from the Portuguese Film Institute Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual , accessed on December 8, 2019
