Released:
1980-03-19

Overview:
In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.

Director:
Eduardo Geada

Runtime:
2h 0min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Io Appolloni
  as
  Sandra
• 
  Lia Gama
  as
  Maria
• 
  Henrique Viana
  as
  José Saraiva
• 
  Helena Isabel
  as
  Sandra's model
• 
  Adelaide João
  as
  Nurse