Manuel, le fils emprunté

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.

Cast

Francisco Rabal

as Juan Alvarez

Nuno Da Costa

as Manuel Estrada

Luiz Saraiva

as Vasco Estrada (as Luiz Saraïva)

Kim Yaroshevskaya

as Rosa Alvarez

Isabel Serra

as Estella Estrada

Gaston Caron

as Jimmy

Ginette Boivin

as Michèle Leclerc

Robert Toupin

as M. Fortin (le professeur)

Michel Dumont

as M. Castillo (le directeur)

José Barrio

as Pablo

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