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Our Consul in Havana

2019-07-17 pt 110m
Drama
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.

Producer

Francisco Manso

Writer

José Fanha

Writer

António Torrado

Director

Francisco Manso

Colorist

Andreia Bertini

Director of Photography

José António Loureiro

spain cuba consul havana, cuba 19th century hispanic monarchy (spanish empire) 1870s antero de quental eça de queiroz

Status

Released

Countries

  • Portugal

Companies

  • RTP