A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

122 mins | Sept. 17, 2009

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.

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

122 mins | Sept. 17, 2009

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera
Directors Joaquim Leitão
Writers

Cast

Alcides

as

Alex

as

Humberto Bernardo

as Reporter

Alexandra Amaro

as Sofia

Glória Benchimol

as Marisa

Virgílio Castelo

as Francisco Figueiredo

Sofia Leite

as Professora no Colégio

Nuno Homem de Sá

as Marinho

Cândido Ferreira

as Presidente do Clube

Sofia Grilo

as Fátima

Sérgio Grilo

as Segurança Discoteca

Lourenço Henriques

as Gerente da Pizzaria

Tino Navarro

as Professor de Matemática

Ana Padrão

as Helena Figueiredo

Ângelo Rodrigues

as Empregado da Loja de Música

Hugo Tourita

as Carteiro

Jorge Pinto

as Presidente Clube

Heitor Lourenço

as Professor de Educação Física

Yolanda

as Ana