Richard E. Grant & Dominic West Among Cast Set For Dark Comedy ‘The Man Who Stole Portugal’ — Cannes Market 

Principal photography has begun on The Man Who Stole Portugal, a feature project from director Thomas Napper (Jawbone) that has been described as a “darkly comic period heist” about “one of the most audacious financial frauds of the 20th century.”

The film stars James Nelson Joyce (This City is Ours) as Alves Reis, a self-made outsider with a genius for turning a closed door into an opportunity, the official synopsis reads. 

The synopsis continues: “Shut out and underestimated, Reis is determined to give his wife Maria, played by Emily Fairn (The Responder), and their family the life they deserve, and, hustle by hustle, he begins to invent his way upwards. From forged credentials to official contracts, his journey takes him via colonial backwaters all the way to the boardrooms of the Bank of Portugal – until his greatest bluff becomes one of the greatest cons in history.

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