Released:
1981-11-18

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.

Director:
Rui Simões

Runtime:
2h 15min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  José Mário Branco
  as
  Narrator (voice)
• 
  Duran Clemente
  as
  Himself (revolutionary lieutenant)
• 
  Álvaro Cunhal
  as
  Himself (PCP leader)
• 
  Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
  as
  Himself (revolutionary captain)
• 
  Galvão de Melo
  as
  Himself (member of the military junta)