Raul Solnado
Nacimiento : 1929-10-19, Lisbon, Portugal
Muerte : 2009-08-08
Historia
Raul Augusto de Almeida Solnado (19 October 1929, Lisbon - 8 August 2009) was a popular Portuguese actor and comedian. He was born in Lisbon's Madragoa neighborhood, and first appeared on stage there. In his long career, he developed many comic pieces that have become classics.
His humour was, at the time (especially considering Portugal was still under the dictatorial Salazar regime), both unexpected and fresh. It included a lot of nonsense, and stories making fun of daily life. He often played an ingenuous poor man, whose life was neither good or bad. Solnado hosted Portugal's first talk show, in 1969, alongside Carlos Cruz and Fialho Gouveia. The show, called Zip Zip is still considered a landmark in the history of Portuguese television. He died on 8 August 2009 of heart disease.
A Documentary about Raul Solnado's work and life.
Melo
Lisa, una hermosa joven rusa, está casada con Víctor, un portugués. Fernanda, la ex-esposa española de Víctor, aprovechando la llegada en oleada de inmigrantes ilegales a Portugal, quiere hacer negocio con unos pasaportes falsos.A partir de entonces, y para la desesperación de Lisa, su casa se convierte en un centro de reinserción social para los inmigrantes de varias nacionalidades y razas diferentes, todos en busca de un futuro mejor. Entre ellos se encuentra Andrei, un joven ortopedista ucraniano que es buscado por la mafia rusa. Andrei termina enamorándose de Lisa, que ve en él la oportunidad de salir de esa vida. Pero las cosas no son sencillas
Documentary about Raul Solnado's Life.
Jacinto
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Catita
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
Cemetery guard
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
Self
A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
Matos
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the great regulative Governor Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty
Inspector Aranha
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
inspector Aranha
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Elias Santana
Adaptación de la novela de José Cardoso e Pires sobre la investigación policial en torno a la muerte de un militar fugado en los años 60 en Portugal.
João Barbelas / Dom Roberto
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...
Entrenador
En martes y trece, dos parejas deciden casarse sin temer a las supersticiones. Pero el caso es que a uno de los novios, antes de salir para la iglesia, se le incendia la casa. Una de tantas comedias que el director Pedro Lazaga realizó durante el franquismo. En ella vuelven a repetirse las situaciones habituales en este tipo de filmes, como son las dudas de una pareja de novios, las confusiones o los equívocos. Lo mejor, sin duda, el trabajo de los actores, especialistas en el género como José Luis López Vázquez o Concha Velasco.
Sacristão
The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
Manuel / Tarzan
Luisa and Manuel begin the existence of married, having only their dream and hope. He judges himself a Tarzan in the jungle of life, able to face all the threats, next to his companion.
Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.
Melancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both women already married, and his life marred by problems.
