A Severa (film)

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A Severa

Poster for the film
Directed by José Leitão de Barros
Written by J. Bernard Brunius,
René Clair
Starring Dina Teresa,
António Luis Lopes,
Antonio Lavradio,
Ribeiro Lopes
Music by Frederico de Freitas
Cinematography Salazar Dinis,
Paul Guichard
Distributed by Imaginação,
Video e Televisão,
Lisvendas Audio e Video
Release date(s) Flag of Portugal 17 July, 1931
Running time 110mins
Country Portugal
Language Portuguese
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A Severa is a Portuguese 1931 film, directed by Leitão de Barros, famous for being the first Portuguese all-talking sound film, a biopic of the fado singer Maria Severa Onofriana, known as A Severa, based on the novel by Júlio Dantas.

The film is rarely seen today, and has not the popularity of other films of the 1930s, seen as the golden era of Portuguese cinema.

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