Our Consul in Havana

Overview

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.

Cast

Elmano Sancho

Eça de Queiroz

Mafalda Banquart

Mollie Bidwell

Luísa Cruz

Mary Bidwell

Rodrigo Santos

Torradellas

Jorge Pinto

General Bidwell

Pedro Frias

Sanchez Morales

António Capelo

Blas

Joana Carvalho

D. Antónia

Joaquim Nicolau

Esteves

João Lagarto

Andrade Corvo

José Eduardo

Paco

Ivo Arroja

Juan