Frei Luís de Sousa

(1950)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama, Family, History

Year: 1950

Runtime: 118 мин

Country: Portugal

Director: António Lopes Ribeiro

Cast: Maria Sampaio, Raul de Carvalho, María Dulce, João Villaret, Barreto Poeira, Tomás de Macedo, José Amaro, Maria Olguim, Jaime Santos, José Victor

Plot

Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, with whom she has a daughter, who is afflicted by a fatal illness. Now only the tutor Telmo Pais retains the hope that the lost husband is alive, a premonition that may be confirmed after two decades, with the arrival of a mysterious pilgrim...