Get a Life

1h 55m
Drama
7

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

Rita Blanco
Cidália
Adriano Luz
Adelino
Teresa Madruga
Celestina
Alda Gomes
Alda
Olivier Leite
Orlando
Maria David
Lúcia
Yvette Caldas
Fátima
Jinie Rainho
Jinie
Adélia Baltazar
Fernanda
Luis Rego
Adérito
Tiago Manaïa
Álvaro
José Raposo
Unknown
Teresa Roby
Unknown

Crew

João Canijo
Director, Writer
Celine Pouillon
Writer
Pierre Hodgson
Writer
João Braz
Editor
Mário Castanheira
Director of Photography
Paulo Branco
Producer
Alexandre Soares
Music
Mayanna von Ledebur
Art Direction

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