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A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera (2009)
Directed by Joaquim Leitão
Overview
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.
Length 122 minutes
Actors
Alcides | Alex | Angi Almeida | Vanessa Almeida | Jorge Chança | Humberto Bernardo | Sandra Alves | Alexandra Amaro | João Abel Baptista | André Barbosa | Glória Benchimol | Virgílio Castelo | Sofia Leite | Nuno Homem de Sá | Cândido Ferreira | Sofia Grilo | Sérgio Grilo | Lourenço Henriques | Tino Navarro | Ana Padrão | Ângelo Rodrigues | Hugo Tourita | Tomás Wallenstein | Jorge Pinto | Heitor Lourenço | Yolanda | Fernando Tavares Marques