O Leão da Estrela
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | O Leão da Estrela |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Duarte |
| script |
Ernesto Rodrigues Félix Bermudes João Bastos |
| production | Tóbis Portuguesa |
| music | Jaime Mendes |
| camera |
Aquilino Mendes João Silva |
| cut | Antonio Martins |
| occupation | |
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O Leão da Estrela is a 1947 Portuguese comedy film . It is the film adaptation of the play of the same name, which premiered in the Teatro Politeama in 1925 and was first released in cinemas in the same year as a film recording of the theater performance.
action
Anastácio da Silva is an ardent supporter of the Sporting Lisbon Football Club . The cup final against FC Porto is already sold out, as are all tickets for the special trains and buses there. After he managed to organize a map and transport from Lisbon to Porto at the last minute, with great effort , he and his family stayed with his casual acquaintances, the Barata family. Given her villa and her wealth, he pretends to be wealthy too. He gets caught up in a series of white lies, but barely manages to maintain the picture. The situation escalates when Anastácio's daughter Branca becomes engaged to Barata's son Eduardo and the wedding is arranged in Lisbon. After a series of happy coincidences, the illusion of the wealthy Anastácios surprisingly persists, and the wedding, along with the film, has a happy ending .
background
The film by the former UFA actor Arthur Duarte is one of the box-office hits of the Portuguese film of the 1930s to 1950s that are still popular today . The original recordings of the home game of FC Porto against the then sensational team Sporting Lisbon are a special feature of this film.
Due to the non-existent television and the only rare and short sequences from football games that were shown in the weekly newsreels before the cinema films, the game scenes in O Leão da Estrela are among the few moving images from the heyday of Portuguese football . One sees here in rare recordings the Cinco Violinos , Sporting's attack quintet (Jesus Correia, Vasques, Peyroteo, Travassos and Albano), which the sports press of the time dubbed “the five violins ” with reference to their perfectly shaped and harmonious interplay . Some scenes were re-shot with the original people (players and referees) for the film, such as the choice of seats for the teams at the start of the game. The following original game scenes in the film are from the final of the Taça de Honra , which ended 2-1 for Sporting. In that year the national cup ( Taça de Portugal ) was not played, so this meant winning the cup in 1947 for the football professionals from Sporting, who also won the championship that year.
The film also addresses the rivalry between the lively Lisbon in the south and the enterprising Porto in the north of the country, which stands in the shadow of the southern capital. Love and the ensuing marriage overcomes this rivalry in the humorous story told here.
The title of the film O Leão da Estrela translates as "The Lion of the Estrela Quarter" and alludes on the one hand to the heraldic animal Sportings and the club supporters named after him, on the other hand to Anastácio's place of residence in Lisbon, the Estrela quarter in the Lapa municipality .
Remake
The Portuguese director Leonel Vieira re- filmed O Leão da Estrela in 2015. As part of a trilogy in which he re-adapted popular films from the 1930s and 1940s, O Leão da Estrela became the most successful Portuguese film since 2004.
Web links
- O Leão da Estrela in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos “Dicionário do cinema portugués 1895–1961” Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2011 ISBN 978-972-21-2602-1 , p. 215.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039563/plotsummary
- ^ Statements by Jesus Correia (one of the "five violins") and the actor Artur Agostinho, in the bonus material of the DVD edition of the film restored by the Cinemateca Portuguesa , Lusomundo 2002
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ O Leão da Estrela de Arthur Duarte ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Current box office overview 2004–2015 of the Portuguese film institute ICA (pdf access), accessed on December 6, 2015
