Solo de Violino

Solo de Violino

98 mins | Drama, Romance | Nov. 29, 1990

Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.

Solo de Violino

98 mins | Drama, Romance | Nov. 29, 1990

Solo de Violino
Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.
Producers
Original title Solo de Violino
Directors Monique Rutler
Writers Cesario Borga, Edgar Gonsalves Preto, Monique Rutler

Cast

Fernanda Lapa

as Adelaide Coelho da Cunha

Victor Santos

as Alfredo da Cunha

André Gago

as Manuel Claro

Marques D'Arede

as Barbosa de Magalhães

José Eduardo

as Balbino Rego

Custódia Gallego

as Etelvina

Augusto Portela

as Egas Moniz

Monique Rutler

as Phèdre

Francis Selleck

as Théramène

Laurinda Ferreira

as Alberto's Wife

Manuel Cintra

as Hypolite

Rosa Castro André

as Mariana

Alfredo Brito

as Chauffeur / Policeman

Ilda Roquete

as Júlia

Manuela Carona

as Branca de Gonta Colaco