Get a Life

Original title: Ganhar a Vida

• 2001
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• 1h 55m

• Drama

★ 7.3 TMDB Rating · 7 votes

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

Director

João Canijo

Release date

May 4, 2001

Original language

Portuguese

Origin

France, Portugal