Our Consul in Havana
- Released on
- Runtime
- 110 mins
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 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
- Elmano Sancho
- Mafalda Banquart
- Luísa Cruz
- Rodrigo Santos
- Jorge Pinto
- Pedro Frias
- António Capelo
- Joana Carvalho
- Joaquim Nicolau
- João Lagarto
- José Eduardo
- Ivo Arroja
- João Pamplona
Director
- Francisco Manso
Producers
- Francisco Manso
