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Get a Life (2001)
Directed by João Canijo
Drama · 1h 55m
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
Adriano Luz
Teresa Madruga
Alda Gomes
Luis Rego
José Raposo
Crew
- Director
- João Canijo
- Writer
- Pierre Hodgson, João Canijo, Celine Pouillon
- Director of Photography
- Mário Castanheira
- Editor
- João Braz
- Producer
- Paulo Branco
Details
- Original title
- Ganhar a Vida
- Release date
- 2001-05-04
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- French, Portuguese
- Countries
- France, Portugal
- Production
- Madragoa Filmes, Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia, Gemini Films