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Saint George

Saint George

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 9, 2017

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Drama

User Score

66%

Original Title

São Jorge

Production Companies

Filmes do Tejo, Les Films de l'Après-Midi

Director

Marco Martins

Description

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.