In the mid-1940s, in a Portugal mired in poverty and illiteracy, a group of boys work in the potteries of Alhandra, on the coast, collecting clay to make tiles and bricks. Gineto, Sagui, Malesso, Guedelhas and Gaitinhas form strong friendships and bonds of camaraderie, while dreaming of other places and embarking on liberating adventures, facing the harshness of work, the daily dramas of family life, hunger, abuse and injustice with courage, rebellion and determination. In the end, their unity always prevails in a world of adults who do not understand them.
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Santiago André
Gineto
Also in
Broken Promise
Sunset
Frederico Pinto
Gaitinhas
Dinis Vila-Nova
Sagui
Also in
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Portuguese Love
Álvaro Silva
Maquineta
Salvador Rio
Guedelhas
Also in
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Lourenço Rodrigues
Malesso
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Gonçalo Waddington
Manuel do Bote
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Glória
Grand Tour
Maria João Pinho
Maria do Bote
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Glória
The Secret
Miguel Borges
Zé Vicente
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Odisseia
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Isabel Abreu
Irene
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Odisseia
Remains of the Wind
Margarida Vila-Nova
Madalena
Also in
Mysteries of Lisbon
Natural Law
Augusto Madeira
Sr. Castro
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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
The Mechanism
João Maia Director · Mário Cunha Screenplay Soeiro Pereira Gomes Writer
Produced in Portugal · Original title Esteiros
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Ukbar Filmes
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Portugal
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Original title
Esteiros
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
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