A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

2009 · 122 min · ★ 5.2

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.

Directed by Joaquim Leitão · Written by Manuel Arouca

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Alcides
Alex
Angi Almeida
Vanessa Almeida
Jorge Chança
Humberto Bernardo Reporter
Sandra Alves
Alexandra Amaro Sofia
João Abel Baptista
André Barbosa
Glória Benchimol Marisa
Virgílio Castelo Francisco Figueiredo

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