A Severa

Name: A Severa
Genre: Drama
Released: 1931-07-17
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Dina Teresa, António Luis Lopes, Antonio Lavradio

19311931
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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Drama

The (too brief) life, the (ardent) loves and the (too early) death of Maria Severa Onofirana (1820-1846), better known as "A Severa", a beautiful gypsy who, besides being a prostitute, sang ... Read allThe (too brief) life, the (ardent) loves and the (too early) death of Maria Severa Onofirana (1820-1846), better known as "A Severa", a beautiful gypsy who, besides being a prostitute, sang in the taverns of the Mouraria area in Lisbon, and is said to have created the "Fado" styl... Read allThe (too brief) life, the (ardent) loves and the (too early) death of Maria Severa Onofirana (1820-1846), better known as "A Severa", a beautiful gypsy who, besides being a prostitute, sang in the taverns of the Mouraria area in Lisbon, and is said to have created the "Fado" style.

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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Director
- José Leitão de Barros
Writers
- Júlio Dantas(based on a play by)
- Jacques B. Brunius(uncredited)
- René Clair(unconfirmed)
Stars

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Trivia
This is the first Portuguese film with sound.

Alternate versions
A silent version was released in 1932.

Connections
Featured in Olhar o Cinema Português: 1896-2006 (2007)

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Review

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7/10

The beginning of Fado and the Golden Age of Portuguese Cinema

The first all-talking Portuguese film with sound and musical performances. Although sometimes forgotten in time, the film serves as an introduction to what would be known as the Golden Age of Portuguese Cinema. It is a less complex drama - compared to Canção de Lisboa and many other well known classics that would follow - and it´s based on the novel from Júlio Dantas, about the life of a gypsy girl, who is believed to be the first Fado singer and a seminal figure to the musical genre. It shows the most significant aspects of portuguese culture of late 1880s, the social life of portuguese high society, the country side of beautiful Lezirias from Ribatejo, with the Portuguese bull and Lusitanian horse, but most importantly, it tells how the popular music called Fado was born, setting a very specific tone in portuguese cinema about fate, melancholia and a sad longing we call "saudade" that would be explored for decades in film and music.

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