Very cute, always Mazzaropi with a tail in a skirt, but always a faithful and passionate man, here we see a very macho example, but with a good social criticism of patriarchy, as always, and an outcome in which the wife chooses her passionate husband. and the simple life, which he preaches in almost all of his films, happiness is in the little things ...

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Zenó (Mazzaropi) is a poor gardener at a traditional school in São Paulo who falls in love with a local girl who is much richer and younger than he is. Eager to win her, he decides to get rich, which gets him involved in various funny situations.

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Amácio Mazzaropi in Zé do Periquito (1960)

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