Get a Life

05/04/2001

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1hr 55min

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Drama

STORY

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Rita Blanco
  • Adriano Luz
  • Teresa Madruga
  • Alda Gomes
  • Olivier Leite

    Director

  • João Canijo

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Madragoa Filmes
  • Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia
  • Gemini Films

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Portugal

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • Portuguese