The Gilded Cage (2013 film)

• Rita Blanco: Maria Ribeiro
• Joaquim de Almeida: José Ribeiro
• Roland Giraud: Francis Cailaux
• Chantal Lauby: As long as Cailaux
• Barbara Cabrita: Paula Ribeiro
• Lannick Gautry: Charles Cailaux
• Maria Vieira: Pink
• Jacqueline Corado: Lourdes
• Jean -Pierre Martins Carlos
• Alex Alves Pereira: Pedro Ribeiro
• Catarina Wallenstein: fado singer
• Pauleta Himself

Portugal, mon amour (French: La Cage Dorée, dt: The Golden Cage ) is a feature film of the Franco- Portuguese director Ruben Alves from the year 2013.

Action

The Portuguese couple Ribeiro lives as migrant workers for many years in Paris. Maria is home help and concierge while José is engaged in a construction company. They are as hard-working staff and neighbors popular and now live with their adult children integrated into French society. At the same time they feel Portugal still very connected.

As José's well-heeled brother dies, the family fortune and estate inherits the brother in the Alto Douro, the oldest protected wine region in the world and since 2001 a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The family feels out between seductive prosperous life in the former home of Portugal and the familiar life in his native France and is now torn. Your increasingly concrete plans to move there, now try employer, friends and neighbors to prevent at all costs, by making them a farewell as difficult as possible to still achieve such a decision for staying in Paris.

Reception

The premiere of the film took place in Germany on 29 August 2013.

The film is described by critics as a warm and entertaining comedy about integration.