Films
Os Verdes Anos
1963 · 91 min · Portugal · Cert. 12
Directed by Paulo Rocha
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housem...
35mmDigital restoration
Programme note
Rocha's first feature, and the film that opened Portuguese cinema to the modern world — a shoemaker's apprentice and a maid meet in a Lisbon still under Salazar.
We are showing the Cinemateca's restoration. The city in it is four streets from this cinema.
Written about this film
Sep 9, 2026
Four streets from here: Os Verdes Anos and the city it filmed
Paulo Rocha shot a Lisbon that is still standing, mostly.