Dom Roberto (movie)
- User score: 5.8
- Production country: Portugal
- Producer: Ernesto de Sousa
- Production companies: Cooperativa do Espectador
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Release date: 5/30/1962
- Run time: 102 min.
Movie description
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...
