América

América

111 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 26, 2011

Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to Lisa's desperation, her home becomes a halfway house for immigrants of various nationalities and different races, all in search of a better future. Among them is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei falls in love with Lisa, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not simple.

América

111 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 26, 2011

América
Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to Lisa's desperation, her home becomes a halfway house for immigrants of various nationalities and different races, all in search of a better future. Among them is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei falls in love with Lisa, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not simple.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Nineteen Sound and Imaging Productions, Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE), 2Plan2
Original title América
Directors João Nuno Pinto
Writers Luísa Costa Gomes, Melanie Dimantas, João Nuno Pinto

Cast

Fernando Luís

as Vitor

María Barranco

as Fernanda

Dinarte Branco

as Paulo Armando

Raul Solnado

as Melo

Mikhail Evlanov

as Andrei

Cassiano Carneiro

as Matias

Francisco Maestre

as Tolentino

Nikolay Glinskiy

as Aleksander

Dmitry Bogomolov

as Dimitri

Manuel Custódia

as Mauro