Movie Drama
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Portugal Portugal United Kingdom United Kingdom
Henrique Viana Júlia Britton Eunice Muñoz Ruy Furtado Isabel de Castro Isabel Ruth Lia Gama Inês de Medeiros Pedro Cabrita Reis Pedro Hestnes Beatriz Batarda Rita Blanco Francisco Nascimento António Pinhão Botelho Luís Lucas Heitor Lourenço Francisco Pinhão Botelho António Salgueiro Fernando Cabral Martins
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