Barreto Poeira
Acting
Biography
Domingos António Barreto Poeira.
Born: April 24, 1901
Place of Birth: Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Known For
Fátima Terra de Fé!
Having abandoned his family due to religious differences, Dr Silveira moves to Coimbra, where he dedicates himself to his patients, and rejecting any attempts at reconciliation. But, when a terrible accident happens to his son, he must seek a resolution to the debate between faith and science.
The Song of the Earth
In Porto Santo, a small island next to Madeira the drought rages and Gonçalves, a local farmer, tries to overcome the catastrophe, with the help of Bastiana, whom he dearly loves. João Venâncio, who refuses to share the water of his field, tries to steal her heart. One day Gonçalves decides to fight for his beloved, beating violently Venâncio in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
Um Homem do Ribatejo
After the brother's death by a bull, the "Bezoiro", Manuel refuses to succeed him as mayoral, the very day he marries Maria Loba.
Frei Luís de Sousa
The tragedy of a woman who - after seven years of vain searches - gave up hope of finding her husband, a knight lost in battle in Marroc with Sebastião, king of Portugal. She marries, has a daughter by her second husband, and endures the silent reproach of an aid, Telmo Pais, the only who kept his hope that his master shall return, as well as the king... One day, a mysterious pilgrim arrives at the mansion.
Um Homem às Direitas
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 ...
Doomed Love
The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.
Reina santa
A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
A Sapateira Prodigiosa
A young shoemaker marries an older man, but he, jealous, leaves home. The woman opens a tavern and her husband returns in disguise to test her fidelity. Television adaptation of the play by Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Carlos Wallenstein and directed by Varela Silva, with Amália Rodrigues in the lead role.
Cinco lobitos
Felix, the young and rich industrialist, is averse to women. Life plays him a trick, and he gets involved with a number of them - until he gets used to them and, well, starts fancing them, actually.
Vendaval Maravilhoso
The agitated and tragic life of poet Castro Alves, and his romance with actress Eugênia Câmara.
Filmography
as Sapateiro
as Romeiro / D. João de Portugal
as Furtado Coelho
as Álvaro, the squire
as Manuel
as Joaquim Figueiredo
as Tadeu de Albuquerque
as Dr. Silveira
as Gonçales