Frei Luís de Sousa

Frei Luís de Sousa — Plot

Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, with whom she has a daughter, who is afflicted by a fatal illness. Now only the tutor Telmo Pais retains the hope that the lost husband is alive, a premonition that may be confirmed after two decades, with the arrival of a mysterious pilgrim...

• Release date
• September 21, 1950
• Runtime
• 118 min
• Genres
• Drama, Family, History
• Director
• António Lopes Ribeiro

Frei Luís de Sousa — Cast

Maria Sampaio D. Madalena de Vilhena Raul de Carvalho D. Manuel de Sousa Coutinho María Dulce D. Maria de Noronha João Villaret Telmo Pais Barreto Poeira Romeiro / D. João de Portugal

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Tomás de Macedo Dom Jorge José Amaro Miranda Maria Olguim Doroteia