Vasco Santana
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Vasco Santana was a Portuguese
actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema
.
He had already a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa
, in 1933. He would star in about one dozen films until his death.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema
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...
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He had already a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa
A Canção de Lisboa
A Canção de Lisboa is a Portuguese film comedy from 1933, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana Maria, Artur Rodrigues, Coralia Escobar, Eduardo Fernandes, Elvira Coutinho, Fernanda Campos, Francisco Costa, Henrique Alves,...
, in 1933. He would star in about one dozen films until his death.