Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship

Overview

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.

Directed by Sebastian Heemann, Tilo Wagner

Top cast

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Michael Wirges

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José Pacheco Pereira

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António Muñoz Sánchez

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Luis Costa Correia

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Daniela Münkel

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Gert Peukert

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Alberto Arons de Carvalho

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Hans-Ulrich Bünger

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Rainer Bettermann

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Regina Urban

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Günter Wallraff

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Benito Mussolini

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Adolf Hitler

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António de Oliveira Salazar

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Marcelo Caetano

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António de Spínola

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Mário Soares

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Álvaro Cunhal

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Willy Brandt

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Richard Nixon

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