Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Nuno Lopes
as Sargento Francisco Xavier
Soraia Chaves
as Martírio
Marisa Paredes
as D. Filipa Sanches
John Malkovich
as General Wellington
Carloto Cotta
as Tenente Pedro de Alencar
Victoria Guerra
as Clarissa
Marcello Urgeghe
as Major Jonathan Foster
Jemima West
as Maureen
Afonso Pimentel
as Zé Maria
Miguel Borges
as Manuel Penabranca
Mathieu Amalric
as Barão Marbot
Melvil Poupaud
as Marechal Massena