Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship

Apr 16, 2024

0h 53m

★ 6.5

Overview

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

ARTE

Miramar Film

RBB

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Cast

Self

Michael Wirges

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José Pacheco Pereira

Self

António Muñoz Sánchez

Self

Luis Costa Correia

Self

Daniela Münkel

Self

Gert Peukert

Self

Alberto Arons de Carvalho

Self

Hans-Ulrich Bünger

Self

Rainer Bettermann

Self

Regina Urban

Self

Günter Wallraff

Self (archive footage)

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