The Holy Alliance 1980
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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.
- Released : 1980-03-19
- Runtime : 120 minutes
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- Stars : Io Appolloni, Lia Gama, Henrique Viana, Helena Isabel, Adelaide João
- Director : Eduardo Geada, João Carlos Gorjão, Manuel Costa e Silva, Edgar Gonsalves Preto, Sebastião Godinho
