IMDb
Original Title
Dom Roberto
Status
Released
Production Companies
Cooperativa do Espectador
Original Language
PT
Budget
-
Revenue
-
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...
Director
Ernesto de Sousa
Production Countries
Portugal
Spoken Languages
Portuguese
