Solo de Violino

Solo de Violino (1990)

DramaRomance

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.

Director: Monique Rutler

Casts

	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 Seleck as Théramène
	Laurinda Ferreira as Alberto's Wife
	Manuel Cintra as Hypolite
	Nuno Vieira de Almeida as Pianist
	Rosa Castro André as Mariana
	Alfredo Brito as Chauffeur / Policeman
	Ilda Roquete as Júlia
	Manuela Carona as Branca de Gonta Colaco
	Maria Bastos as Mãe de Manuel

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