A Song of Lisbon (1933) on Netflix
Vasco Leitão studies medicine in Lisbon on an allowance from two rich aunts who believe he has graduated. He prefers the fairs and Alice, a seamstress whose father knows his debts.
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Plot summary
Vasco Leitão is a medical student in Lisbon whose studies are paid for by an allowance from his two rich elderly aunts, Efigénia and Perpétua, back in Trás-os-Montes. He has told them he already graduated. In truth he spends his days at popular fairs and in the company of women, among them Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos neighborhood. Her father, Caetano, a tailor, is ambitious for his daughter and is familiar with Vasco's debts. On the day Vasco fails his final examination, his aunts announce a visit to Lisbon, wanting to see the practice of their physician nephew.
Cast
- Ana Maríaas Ana da Garcia - Namorada do Carlos (as Ana Maria)
- Maria Albertinaas fadista
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Song of Lisbon (1933)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- A Canção de Lisboa was the first sound feature film fully produced in Portugal, made in the labs of Lisboa Filme with Tobis equipment. It was the country's second sound feature, after A Severa, the 1931 biopic of the fado singer Maria Severa Onofriana.
- An annoyed Vasco, visiting Lisbon Zoo with his aunts, shouts "There's lot of hats, you fool!" over and over — a line from the film that found its way into everyday life in Portugal.
- Its premiere in Lisbon on 7 November 1933 made it the first in a long line of popular Portuguese comedies generically known as the comédia à portuguesa.
