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.

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

The Wave
The Wave

Salvador (Puig Antich)
Salvador (Puig Antich)

Wiener Brut
Wiener Brut

The Nada Gang
The Nada Gang

1988
1988

The Strategy of the Snail
The Strategy of the Snail

Slacker
Slacker

The Day After
The Day After

Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Children of Paradise
Children of Paradise

The Platform
The Platform

Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley