Our Consul in Havana (2019)

overview : The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.

Release Date : Jul 17, 2019

Runtime : 1h 50m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : RTP

Countries : Portugal

Keywords : spain, cuba, consul, havana, cuba, 19th century, hispanic monarchy (spanish empire), 1870s, antero de quental, eça de queiroz