A Santa Aliança ⁽¹⁹⁸⁰⁾

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Titre original :

A Santa Aliança

Durée :

2h 0min

Date de sortie :

March 1980

Réalisé par : Eduardo Geada, Edgar Gonsalves Preto
Ecrit par : Eduardo Geada, Edgar Gonsalves Preto, Manuel Machado da Luz

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.