110 minutes
2/22/1945
The confrontation of two different temperaments: Figueiredo, a hard-working shopkeeper; his brother-in-law, José, disorderly and wasteful, heir to a family with noble titles but poor. Figueiredo tries to rescue José from this path of perversion that had led him to invest in an attempted theft, followed by a frustrated murder and seduction ...
Barreto Poeira
as Joaquim Figueiredo
Julieta Castelo
as Maria Manuela
Carmen Dolores
as Fernanda
Maria Matos
as Teresa, the house-keeper
Virgílio Teixeira
as José
Maria Emília Vilas
as Manuela's mother
Barroso Lopes
as Manuel
Elvira Velez
as the maid
António Palma
as the judge
Júlio Pereira
as the defense lawyer
Vital dos Santos
as uncle Sebastião
Elvira Velez
as the neighbor
Milita Meireles
as the costume designer
Cidália Meireles
Armando Chagas