Good Portuguese People (1981)

6.7/10 135 min Documentary

Overview

Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal European style democracy.

Cast

José Mário Branco

Narrator (voice)

Álvaro Cunhal

Himself (PCP leader)

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

Himself (revolutionary captain)

António de Spínola

Himself (President of the Republic)

Diogo Freitas do Amaral

Himself (CDS leader)

António Ramalho Eanes

Self (Army commander)

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