Released:
2019-07-17

Overview:
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.

Director:
Francisco Manso

Runtime:
1h 50min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Elmano Sancho
  as
  Eça de Queiroz
• 
  Mafalda Banquart
  as
  Mollie Bidwell
• 
  Luísa Cruz
  as
  Mary Bidwell
• 
  Rodrigo Santos
  as
  Torradellas
• 
  Jorge Pinto
  as
  General Bidwell