The Fortunate Ones

The Fortunate Ones

2024•1h 33m•5.9/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.9/10(5)

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her grandmother died. The wind that whistles in the cranes plunges us into the world of two families against the backdrop of Portugal's recent past.

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Production

Box Productions, C.R.I.M. Produções

Language

PT

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Rita Cabaço

Rita Cabaço

Milene

Milton Lopes

Milton Lopes

Antonino

Maria Fortes

Ana Mata

Isabel Cardoso

Isabel Cardoso

Felícia

Beatriz Batarda

Beatriz Batarda

Ângela Margarida

Carla Maciel

Carla Maciel

Gininha

Ruben Garcia

Ruben Garcia

Afonso

João Lagarto

João Lagarto

Rui Ludovice

Romeu Runa

Romeu Runa

Tio Dom

Cleo Diára

Cleo Diára

Claudina

Luís Lucas

Luís Lucas

Frutuoso

Cucha Carvalheiro

Cucha Carvalheiro

Juliana

Severa Reis

Conceição

Elísio Pereira

Domingos

Ana Zanatti

Ana Zanatti

Regina Leandro

Dino D'Santiago

Dino D'Santiago

Janina Mata

Frederico Amaral

Frederico Amaral

GNR

Nuno Nunes

Nuno Nunes

Padre Funeral

Teresa Faria

Teresa Faria

Freira Funeral

Gilles Tschudi

Gilles Tschudi

Van der Berg

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