O Pai Tirano is a 1941 Portuguese film

Cinema of Portugal

Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...

 comedy directed by António Lopes Ribeiro

António Lopes Ribeiro

António Filipe Lopes Ribeiro 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:...

, starring Vasco Santana

Vasco Santana

Vasco Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema....

, Ribeirinho

Ribeirinho

Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro was a Portuguese actor and director....

 (Francisco Ribeiro), Leonor Maia

Leonor Maia

Leonor Maia, pseudonym of Maria da Conceição de Vasconcelos was a Portuguese film actress active in the 1940s, best remembered for her role in The Tyrant Father. She retired from film in 1953....

, Teresa Gomes and Laura Alves. It is one the best known comedies 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

António Lopes Ribeiro

António Filipe Lopes Ribeiro 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:...

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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 Ribeiro
  Francisco Ribeiro
  Francisco Ribeiro was a Portuguese cellist, composer, lyricist, vocalist, arranger and record producer. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal....
  
   : Francisco 'Chico' Mega
• Leonor Maria : Tatão
• Arthur Duarte
  Arthur Duarte
  Arthur Duarte was a Portuguese film director.-Selected filmography:*1938 - Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca*1943 - O Costa do Castelo*1944 - A Menina da Rádio*1947 - O Leão da Estrela*1954 - A Garça e a Serpente...
  
   : Artur de Castro
• Vasco Santana
  Vasco Santana
  Vasco Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema....
  
   : 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 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.

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