
90 minutes
8/29/1988
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Henrique Viana
as José Grandela
Júlia Britton
as Luisa Cremalheira

Eunice Muñoz
as Mrs. Vilaverde

Ruy Furtado
as Tomaz Cremalheira

Isabel de Castro
as Teresa Cremalheira

Isabel Ruth
as Sebastião's Wife

Lia Gama
as Raquel

Inês de Medeiros
as Cecilia

Pedro Cabrita Reis
as Júlio Vaz Simões

Pedro Hestnes
as Bastos

Beatriz Batarda
as Young Luisa

Rita Blanco
as Luisa Cremalheira (voice)

Francisco Nascimento

António Pinhão Botelho
as Cecilia's Son

Luís Lucas
as Narrator (voice)

Heitor Lourenço

Francisco Pinhão Botelho
as Boy in Opening Credits
António Salgueiro
as Old Man in Bar
Fernando Cabral Martins
as Professor
Maria Alice Pereira
as Old Woman in Black
Vasco Letria
as Young Tomazinho
Pedro Dias Macedo
as Young Bastos
António Peixoto
as Priest

António Sequeira Lopes
as Cecilia's Husband

Dinis Gomes
as Boy in Bar
Armanda Cardoso
as Cremalheira's Maid
José Paiva
as Hotel's Barman
Helder Rainha
as Hotel's Concierge
Manuel Paiva
as Boy in School