Our Consul in Havana
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.
Writer: José Fanha
Writer: António Torrado
Director: Francisco Manso
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
