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Status
Released
Release
1988
Runtime
1h 30m
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
29 Cast Members
Henrique Viana
José Grandela
Júlia Britton
Luisa Cremalheira
Eunice Muñoz
Mrs. Vilaverde
Ruy Furtado
Tomaz Cremalheira
Isabel de Castro
Teresa Cremalheira
Isabel Ruth
Sebastião's Wife
Lia Gama
Raquel
Inês de Medeiros
Cecilia
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Júlio Vaz Simões
Pedro Hestnes
Bastos
Beatriz Batarda
Young Luisa
Rita Blanco
Luisa Cremalheira (voice)
Francisco Nascimento
António Pinhão Botelho
Cecilia's Son
Luís Lucas
Narrator (voice)
Heitor Lourenço
Francisco Pinhão Botelho
Boy in Opening Credits
António Salgueiro
Old Man in Bar
Fernando Cabral Martins
Professor
Maria Alice Pereira
Old Woman in Black
