Laura Soveral

Laura Soveral

Born: March 23, 1933
Laura Soveral (23 March 1933 in Benguela, Angola – 12 July 2018) was a Portuguese actress. She has performed in more than seventy films.

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Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Title: Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Character: Madame Pluche
Released: December 17, 2014
Type: Movie
At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits who cross his path learn this to their own cost. But, unfortunately, no one is perfect... As soon as he catches a cold, Benoît loses his extraordinary physical abilities. Hence he never takes off the woollen scarf wrapped around his neck. Brave and very determined, he doesn't hesitate a second to take action to defend his friends. So, when Poilonez - a well known crook - and his gang decide to focus on Mr. Dussiflard, his taxi driver friend, Benoît does all that he can to thwart his plans.
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Title: The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Character: Senhora de Preto
Released: September 11, 2014
Type: Movie
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
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Obsessive Rythms
Title: Obsessive Rythms
Character: Mère Carmine
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: Movie
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.
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Title: Odisseia
Character: Avó de Bruno
Released: January 20, 2013
Type: TV
A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.
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O Cônsul de Bordéus
Title: O Cônsul de Bordéus
Released: May 3, 2012
Type: Movie
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
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Tabu
Title: Tabu
Character: Aurora
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
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Title: Velhos Amigos
Character: Verónica
Released: September 25, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Maternidade
Character: Dr.ª Sílvia
Released: January 30, 2011
Type: TV
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Amor Cego
Title: Amor Cego
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Voo Directo
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: TV
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Disquiet
Title: Disquiet
Character: Pobre
Released: September 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.
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Title: Regresso a Sizalinda
Released: July 17, 2010
Type: TV
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Todi
Title: Todi
Character: Luísa Todi
Released: June 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Dramatized documentary about the life and work of Luísa Rosa de Aguiar, know as Luísa Todi, Soprano, considered the most celebrated singer in Portugal.
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This Night
Title: This Night
Character: La Mère de Rosaria
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is poised to take power in a coup d'etat. Ossorio used to call Santa Maria home, and he has returned in its darkest hour to find the woman he loves, hoping to rescue her from the violence that is lurks around the corner. As Ossorio searches for his love, he meets Victoria in a shabby hotel, who in turn introduces him to her father Barcala, who for the right price is willing to take Ossorio and another passenger away on his boat. While Ossorio is willing to pay Barcala what he wants, can he find the mysterious woman before the ship sets sail?
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True and Tender is the North
Title: True and Tender is the North
Character: D. Matilde
Released: September 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
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The Lovebirds
Title: The Lovebirds
Character: Rosa's mother
Released: March 13, 2008
Type: Movie
THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous
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Title: O Dia do Regicídio
Character: D. Maria Pia
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: TV
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Sleepwalking Land
Title: Sleepwalking Land
Character: D. Virgínia
Released: September 22, 2007
Type: Movie
In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.
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Title: Chiquititas
Character: Angústias
Released: July 20, 2007
Type: TV
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Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
Title: Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira documented his hometown in Gândara, the film uses all the creative liberty that new digital technology allows in order to recreate the visual and sound records that were also present in the writer and poet’s own work.
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Alice
Title: Alice
Character: Lurdes
Released: September 28, 2005
Type: Movie
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
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The Fatalist
Title: The Fatalist
Character: the grand mother
Released: June 26, 2005
Type: Movie
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
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Title: O Jogo
Character: Rita
Released: February 9, 2004
Type: TV
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Portugal S.A.
Title: Portugal S.A.
Character: Felismina
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.
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Lent
Title: Lent
Character: Maria Carvalho
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: Movie
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.
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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Title: A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Character: the President's mother
Released: March 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.
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O Delfim
Title: O Delfim
Character: Camponesa
Released: March 13, 2002
Type: Movie
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.
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Title: O Espírito da Lei
Character: Prima de Nika
Released: September 23, 2001
Type: TV
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Aniversário
Title: Aniversário
Character: Aunt Judite
Released: October 19, 2000
Type: Movie
The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
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Lourdes
Title: Lourdes
Released: May 29, 2000
Type: Movie
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
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Title: Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Beatriz
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
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Traffic
Title: Traffic
Character: Cassius in 'Julius Caesar' Play
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
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Guardian Angel
Title: Guardian Angel
Character: Marta
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
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Goodbye, Father
Title: Goodbye, Father
Character: Dona Paula / teacher
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality.
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Five Days, Five Nights
Title: Five Days, Five Nights
Character: Sra. Conceição
Released: April 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
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The Jew
Title: The Jew
Character: Maria Coutinho
Released: January 16, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
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Ao Sul
Title: Ao Sul
Character: Maria Adelina
Released: April 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
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Two Brothers, My Sister
Title: Two Brothers, My Sister
Character: Suburban Lady
Released: November 4, 1994
Type: Movie
This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.
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Title: Ideias com História
Character: Louise Michel
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: TV
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Here on Earth
Title: Here on Earth
Character: Housekeeper
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a great deal, and that make it impossible for him to bear human society. His wife (Jessica Weiss) is thoroughly put out by this radically changed behavior in her formerly good husband, but though she considers leaving him, she stays by his side. Deep in the mountains, Cecelia (Rita Dias), a devout, pure young cowherd, has been brutally raped by an old man. Her boyfriend (Pedro Hestnes) has killed the rapist, and fled the area. As a result of the rape, Cecelia is pregnant. One day, while driving in the mountains, Miguel gives Cecelia's boyfriend a ride. The two of them chance upon her sitting amid the rocks with her infant baby.
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Abraham's Valley
Title: Abraham's Valley
Character: Aunt Augusta
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
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A Tremonha de Cristal
Title: A Tremonha de Cristal
Character: Mother
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Armando, the only grandson of an old worker of Salinas de Aveiro, studies music in France and any news from him is scarce. The grandfather Abilio then decides to send him a letter announcing his death and Armando rushes to return.
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Off Season
Title: Off Season
Character: Mrs. Wartburg-Smith
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: Movie
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms.
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The Divine Comedy
Title: The Divine Comedy
Character: Elena Ivanovna
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
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Title: Ricardina e Marta
Character: D. Clementina
Released: September 24, 1989
Type: TV
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The Seventh Letter
Title: The Seventh Letter
Character: Virginia
Released: August 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Some time ago Gerardo knew another man of the same age called Berardo. When he said the name, Berardo expressed his oppinion violently, saying that the «G» was owed him and that Gerardo, since he owned it had somehow stolen something from him. Berardo then tries to get something back which soon goes beyond a baptismal name. Gerardo whitnesses this strange spectacle of himself as a place where, after Berardo, other people try to get something back, something that escapes them about themselves. Three women - Adália, Miranda and Virgínia - are whitnesses to this game
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A True and Faithful Account
Title: A True and Faithful Account
Character: D. Luísa
Released: June 22, 1989
Type: Movie
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.
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Title: Passerelle
Character: Palmira
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.
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Matar Saudades
Title: Matar Saudades
Character: Mother
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
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Title: Já Está
Character: Dramatização
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: TV
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To Catch a King
Title: To Catch a King
Character: Mrs. de Oliveira
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
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Francisca
Title: Francisca
Released: December 3, 1981
Type: Movie
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
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Oxalá
Title: Oxalá
Character: Inês
Released: May 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
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A Bee in the Rain
Title: A Bee in the Rain
Character: Maria dos Prazeres
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
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Estrada da Vida
Title: Estrada da Vida
Character: Madalena
Released: August 25, 1968
Type: Movie
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Alta Velocidade
Title: Alta Velocidade
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Ferguson, and subsidiary industries for car parts. - IMDb