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Wikipedia article




'O Pai Tirano' (lit. 'The Tyrant Father') is a 1941 Portuguese film comedy directed by Antnio Lopes Ribeiro, starring Vasco Santana, Ribeirinho (Francisco Ribeiro), Leonor Maia, Teresa Gomes and Laura Alves. It is one of the best-known comedies of its genre, the 'comdia portuguesa' of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, still popular six decades after its release.

'O Pai Tirano' was the first film produced and directed by Antnio Lopes Ribeiro.

Plot



Francisco Mega (Ribeirinho), a clerk at the then leading department stores of Lisbon, "Grandes Armazns do Grandella", is in love with 'Tato' (Leonor Maia), who works in front at "Perfumaria da Moda". Tato, however, is a cinephile who largely ignores him, whereas Francisco is also an amateur theatre player; so his amateur theatre company, the Grandellinhas, uses its rehearsals of the play 'O Pai Tirano (ou O ltimo dos Almeidas)' to present Francisco as a son who split from his tyrant father for love, and woo Tato.

Distribution



* Francisco Ribeiro : Francisco 'Chico' Mega

* Leonor Maia : Tato

* Arthur Duarte : Artur de Castro

* Vasco Santana : Mestre Jos Santana

* Barro Lopes : Lopes

* Graa Maria : Gracinha

Popular culture



'O Pai Tirano' offered a number of situations that became common reference in Portuguese culture.

Among them, a scene almost at the end of the movie, where one of the members of the theatre company, middle-aged Mr. Machado (a caricature of the don't-bother-couldn't-care-less Portuguese) takes his new girlfriend to dinner at the theatre buffet. To each request the lady makes, the item is unavailable, so they ask what she wants, and they repeatedly request "two glasses of white wine."

This line has since been used in adds for a Portuguese spirit.

References



*[http://www.amordeperdicao.pt/basedados_filmes.asp?filmeid=235 'O Pai Tirano'] at Amor de Perdio


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