Operation Autumn

Nov 22, 2012

1h 32m

★ 6.8

Overview

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

Genres

Thriller

History

Production Companies

Alfama Films

ICA

RTP

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Cast

General Humberto Delgado

John Ventimiglia

Mário de Carvalho

Diogo Dória

Ernesto Lopes Ramos

Nuno Lopes

Rosa Casaco

Carlos Santos

Agostinho Tienza

Marcello Urgeghe

Casimiro Monteiro

Pedro Efe

Barbieri Cardoso

José Nascimento

Álvaro Pereira de Carvalho

Adriano Carvalho

Maria Iva Delgado

Ana Padrão

António Semedo

Camané

Emílio Guerreiro

João D'Ávila

Maria Humberta Delgado

Cleia Almeida

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.

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