''O Homem dos Olhos Tortos'' (literally "The Man of the Crooked Eyes") is a 1918 Portuguese

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directed by

José Leitão de Barros José Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and playwright. Among his most famous films are '' Maria do Mar'' (1930), the second docufiction after '' Moana'' (1926) by Robert Flaherty, the first ...

(with

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Luís Reis Santos also sometimes mentioned as co-director), with a cast of amateur actors (that mostly had no roles after this film) with António Sarmento as the hero and Álvaro Pereira as the title-character villain.

Cast

*António Sarmento as Gil Goes *Álvaro Pereira as Waldemar Frankel *Raquel Barros as Margarida Costa *Alda de Aguiar as Rosa de Coimbra *Filipe Melo as Lilito de Coimbra

References

External links

* Portuguese silent films Films directed by José Leitão de Barros Portuguese black-and-white films Films shot in Lisbon {{silent-film-stub