Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship (2024)

6.5/10 53 min Documentary History TV Movie

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.

Cast

José Pacheco Pereira

Self

Alberto Arons de Carvalho

Self

Günter Wallraff

Self

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

António de Oliveira Salazar

Self (archive footage)

Marcelo Caetano

Self (archive footage)

António de Spínola

Self (archive footage)

Mário Soares

Self (archive footage)

Álvaro Cunhal

Self (archive footage)

Willy Brandt

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

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