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Letters to a Dictatorship
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Letters to a Dictatorship

Jan 1, 2006
1h 0m
★ 0.0

Overview

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism that dominated Portugal for more than 50 years.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Faux
ADR Productions
Neon Rouge Production

Cast

No Cast found.

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