A Rosa do Adro
Tells of the forbidden love between Rosa, a beautiful minhota, and Fernando, a voluble young man who studied medicine in Porto, spending holidays in the village.
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"This was amongst the first of the films made for Invicta in Portugal by the French director Georges Pallu (for more on the Invicta story and the various French directors who made films in Portugal at this time see my reviews of Mulheres de Beira, Os Lobos and Os Faroleiros) and it is based on a popular romance. It enjoyed a considerable success and even led to the Portuguese President conferring the honorary title of Knight of the Order of Christ on the very Catholic Pallu. But it is really not one of the best films that were made at this time (no comparison with the three other films mentione..."
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The 1870 novel was already in its 24th edition when it was adapted to film, which changed the setting from the 19th-century civil war between monarchic factions to present-day class division and jealousy.
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Tells of the forbidden love between Rosa, a beautiful minhota, and Fernando, a voluble young man who studied medicine in Porto, spending holidays in the village.