Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.
Directed by François Labonté
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TrailerManuel, el hijo prestado (François Labonté, 1990)
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Francisco Rabal
Juan Alvarez
Nuno Da Costa
Manuel Estrada
Luiz Saraiva
Vasco Estrada (as Luiz Saraïva)
Kim Yaroshevskaya
Rosa Alvarez
Isabel Serra
Estella Estrada
Gaston Caron
Jimmy
Ginette Boivin
Michèle Leclerc
Robert Toupin
M. Fortin (le professeur)
Michel Dumont
M. Castillo (le directeur)
José Barrio
Pablo
Simon Quévillon-Loiselle
Angelo
Marco Lavoie
Costa
Pedro Marques
Luis Estrada
Marisa Martiho
Clara Estrada
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