Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship

  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie
4/16/2024
53

Storyline

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.

Directors:
Sebastian Heemann
Tilo Wagner
  • 1970s
  • revolution
  • coup d'etat
  • anti-communism
  • colonialism
  • communism
  • portuguese history
  • european history
  • popular uprising
  • anti-colonialism
  • salazarism (1933-74)
  • political conspiracy
  • estado novo (1933-74)
  • carnation revolution (1974)

Cast

  • Michael Wirges
    Self
  • 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
  • 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)

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