O Pai Tirano (lit. ''The Tyrant Father'') is a 1941

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

film comedy directed by

António Lopes Ribeiro António Filipe Lopes Ribeiro (16 April 1908 in Lisbon – 1995) was a Portuguese film director. Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester da Nazaré Lopes, he was the older brother of actor Ribeirinho. Filmography *''Dia ...

, starring

Vasco Santana Vasco Santana (full name: ''Vasco António Rodrigues Santana''; 28 January 1898 in Lisbon – 13 June 1958) was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema. He already had a long career in theatre w ...

Ribeirinho Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (Lisbon, 21 September 1911 – Lisbon, 7 February 1984) was a Portuguese actor and director. He started his career in theatre in 1929, and kept the connection all his life, both as an ...

(Francisco Ribeiro),

Leonor Maia Leonor Maia, pseudonym of Maria da Conceição de Vasconcelos (8 December 1926 – 3 April 2010)Laura Alves Laura Alves (8 September 1921 – 7 May 1986) was a Portuguese actor on stage, film and radio. Early life Laura Alves Magno was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 8 September 1921, the daughter of Mariana Alves and Celestino Magno. She attended the Mac ...

. It is one of the best-known comedies of its genre, the ''

comédia à portuguesa ''Comédia à portuguesa'' (; Portuguese Comedy) is a term conventionally used to refer to the genre of popular Portuguese film comedies made in the 1930s and 1940s. The light-hearted comedies are predominantly set in petit-bourgeois milieus in tr ...

'' 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

Plot

Francisco Mega (Ribeirinho), a clerk at the then leading department stores of Lisbon, "Grandes Armazéns do Grandella", is in love with ''Tatão'' (Leonor Maia), who works in front at "Perfumaria da Moda". Tatão, 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 Último dos Almeidas)'' to present Francisco as a son who split from his tyrant father for love, and woo Tatão.

Distribution

: Francisco 'Chico' Mega *

Leonor Maia Leonor Maia, pseudonym of Maria da Conceição de Vasconcelos (8 December 1926 – 3 April 2010)Arthur Duarte Arthur Duarte (1895–1982) was a Portuguese actor, screenwriter, production designer and film director. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1926) * ''The Republic of Flappers'' (1928) * '' Because I Love You'' (1928) * ''Ludwig II, King of Bava ...

: Artur de Castro *

: Mestre José Santana * Barro Lopes : Lopes * Graça 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

''O Pai Tirano''
at Amor de Perdição

External links

* 1940s Portuguese-language films 1941 films Portuguese black-and-white films Films directed by António Lopes Ribeiro 1941 comedy films Portuguese comedy films {{Portugal-film-stub