The confrontation of two different temperaments: Figueiredo, a hard-working shopkeeper; his brother-in-law, José, disorderly and wasteful, heir to a family with noble titles but poor. Figueiredo tries to rescue José from this path of perversion that had led him to invest in an attempted theft, followed by a frustrated murder and seduction ...
Directed by Jorge Brum do Canto
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Cast
Barreto Poeira
Joaquim Figueiredo
Julieta Castelo
Maria Manuela
Carmen Dolores
Fernanda
Maria Matos
Teresa, the house-keeper
Virgílio Teixeira
José
Maria Emília Vilas
Manuela's mother
Barroso Lopes
Manuel
Elvira Velez
the maid
António Palma
the judge
Júlio Pereira
the defense lawyer
Vital dos Santos
uncle Sebastião
Elvira Velez
the neighbor
Milita Meireles
the costume designer
Cidália Meireles
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