Manuel, le fils emprunté

Feb 9, 1990

1h 19m

★ 6.3

Overview

Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Cléo 24

Les Productions EGM

ONF | NFB

Téléfilm Canada

Société Générale des Industries Culturelles du Québec (SOGIC)

Manuel, le fils emprunté Trailers

Cast

Juan Alvarez

Francisco Rabal

Manuel Estrada

Nuno Da Costa

Vasco Estrada (as Luiz Saraïva)

Luiz Saraiva

Rosa Alvarez

Kim Yaroshevskaya

Estella Estrada

Isabel Serra

Jimmy

Gaston Caron

Michèle Leclerc

Ginette Boivin

M. Fortin (le professeur)

Robert Toupin

M. Castillo (le directeur)

Michel Dumont

Pablo

José Barrio

Angelo

Simon Quévillon-Loiselle

Costa

Marco Lavoie

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