The Tyrant Father

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O Pai Tirano
Directed by	António Lopes Ribeiro
Produced by	António Lopes Ribeiro
Starring	Vasco Santana Ribeirinho Leonor Maia Graça Maria Teresa Gomes Laura Alves Arthur Duarte
Release date(s)	19 September 1941
Running time	114 mins
Language	Portuguese
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O Pai Tirano (lit. The Tyrant Father) is a 1941 Portuguese film comedy directed by António Lopes Ribeiro, starring Vasco Santana, Ribeirinho (Francisco Ribeiro), Leonor Maia, Teresa Gomes and Laura Alves. It is one the best known commedies 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 António Lopes Ribeiro.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 asks what she wants, and they repeatedly request "two glasses of white wine."

This line has since been used in adds for a Portuguese spirit.

[edit] References

O Pai Tirano at Amor de Perdição