O Cônsul de Bordéus

• Vítor Norte: Aristides Sousa Mendes
• João Monteiro: Aaron Apelman
• Leonor Seixas: Alexandra Schmidt
• Manuel de Blas: Francisco de Almeida
• Laura Soveral: old Esther
• Sara Barros Leitão: Esther
• Joaquim Nicolau: José Seabra
• Susana Sá: Sarah Kruger
• Patrícia Ferreira: Clotilde Sousa Mendes
• Pedro Cunha: Amorim
• São José Correia: Andreé CIBAL
• Miguel Borines: Spanish officer
• João Cabral: Faria Machado
• António Capelo: Teotónio Pereira

Aristides de Sousa Mendes, O Consul de Bordeus is a feature film directors of the Portuguese João Correa and Francisco Manso from the year 2011. He filmed the life of Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes. The film premiered on 12 September 2011 under the title O Consul de Bordeus as the opening film of the Seventh Week of the Portuguese film in Israel in the Cinemateca of Tel Aviv and arrived on 8 November 2012 in Portugal in the cinemas.

Action

The film tells the life story of the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, approximately 30,000 people rescued as Consul General in Bordeaux during the Second World War life. In the true story of the fictional story of a refugee is woven, which is a famous conductor.

Background

The film was shot in Viana do Castelo and in Bordeaux. The production costs at three million euros.