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A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

46 %|Sep 17, 2009|

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.

Featured Crew

Joaquim Leitão
Director
Manuel Arouca
Writer
Tino Navarro
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Tino Navarro
Producer
Tony Costa
Cinematography
José António Loureiro
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Cast

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Virgílio Castelo
Francisco Figueiredo
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Sofia Leite
Professora no Colégio
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Cândido Ferreira
Presidente do Clube
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Sérgio Grilo
Segurança Discoteca
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Lourenço Henriques
Gerente da Pizzaria
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Tino Navarro
Professor de Matemática
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Ana Padrão
Helena Figueiredo
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Ângelo Rodrigues
Empregado da Loja de Música
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Hugo Tourita
Carteiro
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Jorge Pinto
Presidente Clube
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Heitor Lourenço
Professor de Educação Física