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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Elmano SanchoEça de Queiroz
Mafalda BanquartMollie Bidwell
Luísa CruzMary Bidwell
Rodrigo SantosTorradellas
Jorge PintoGeneral Bidwell
Pedro FriasSanchez Morales
António CapeloBlas
Joana CarvalhoD. Antónia
Joaquim NicolauEsteves
João LagartoAndrade Corvo
José EduardoPaco
Ivo ArrojaJuanExplore the crew
- Producer
- Francisco Manso
- Writer
- José Fanha
- Writer
- António Torrado
- Director
- Francisco Manso
- Director of Photography
- José António Loureiro
- Editor
- José Diogo Ferreira
- Editor
- Miguel Cardoso Faria