''Camões'' is a 1946 Portuguese
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
José Leitão de Barros. It was entered into the
1946 Cannes Film Festival
The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946. Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes. Only one year after t ...
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Cast
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António Vilar as
Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões (; or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns ( ), is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of William Shakes ...
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José Amaro as
Dom Manuel de Portugal
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Igrejas Caeiro as
André Falcão de Resende
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Paiva Raposo as
Pero de Andrade Caminha
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Dina Salazar as
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie ( , ) are a class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people, in general, which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between the peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted wi ...
of
Coimbra
Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of .
The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...
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Idalina Guimarães as Inês
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Leonor Maia as Leonor
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Manuel Lereno
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Júlio Pereira
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Carlos Moutinho as Caminha's Friend
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Carmen Dolores
References
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1946 films
1946 drama films
1940s biographical drama films
Portuguese biographical drama films
1940s Portuguese-language films
Portuguese black-and-white films
Films directed by José Leitão de Barros
Films set in the 16th century
Films set in Portugal
Films set in Lisbon
Cultural depictions of Portuguese people
Portuguese-language biographical drama films
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