Vasco Santana and Beatriz Costa were two famous Portuguese actors and comedians at the 20's\30's of the XX century, on stage or on the big movie screen they had a chemistry together that few pairs of actors can. Both at the same spot was gu

aranteed a good laugh. They often improvised on time without anyone realizing it!
In a time were all that was said to public was scrutinized by the censors of the dictatorial regime, humor was intelligent and managed to pass many messages to the public without "hurting" the political sensitivity of the government of the time.
Adored by the Portuguese people, Vasco and Beatriz together or separated will be forever a milestone of the art of representation. Genius actors at the level of the world's greatest that forever marked the Portuguese comedy.

 

Here it is a small part of their acting together at the movie "Canção de Lisboa"
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"O Cerro dos Enforcados" (The Hill of the Hanged)
Based on the story of the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiros "O Defunto" ("The Corpse")
Director:Fernando Garcia
Script: Domingos de Mascarenhas, Fernando Garcia

Duration: 118 minutes
Genre: Drama
Year: 1954

Synopsis: Fifteenth Century. Dom Alfonso, a jealous old nobleman, ordered everyone to deviate from the streets when his beautiful wife, Lady Leonor, goes to church to pray to the Virgin of Mercy. One day, she is seen by another nobleman, Dom Rui, who is dazzled by her beauty. D. Alfonso tells his wife to go to their Estate in Cabril, and decides to stab himself to death his rival at night ... But the body mysteriously disappears.

 

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A Morgadinha dos Canaviais
(Based on the novel by Julio Dinis with the same name.)

Director: Caetano Bonucci

Duration: 93 minutes
Genre: Romance
Year: 1949

Synopsis:

To cure himself of the boredom of Lisbon, Henrique de Souzelas visits is auntie Doroteia, in a picturesque village of Minho, where he is attracted by his young and beautiful cousin Madalena. She, however, loves Augusto, the professor of the children of the family, which leads to certain misunderstandings or ironic friction, that dilutes the political turmoil experienced from Councillor Manuel Bernardes, father of Madalena, and their opponents on the ground. In the outline of a mutiny against the new law on compulsory burial in cemeteries, Henrique de Souzelas is injured, and convalesce in the care of Christina, his cousin and of Magdalene, who favors the relationship ...

Starring:
António Palma
Costinha
Eunice Muñoz
Maria Matos
Orlando Fernandes
Paiva Raposo
Raul de Carvalho
Tomás de Macedo

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