State of Exception

Overview

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

Directed by Ricardo Seiça Salgado

Top cast

João Viegas

himself

F

Feliciano David

himself

Leandro Vale

himself

A

António Lobo Fernandes

himself

Helder Costa

himself

E

Eliana Gersão

herself

E

Emílio Rui Vilar

himself

M

Manuel Valente

himself

H

Helena Seabra

herself

A

António Lopes Dias

himself

C

Celso Cruzeiro

himself

Carlos Avilez

himself

J

João Rodrigues

himself

C

Clara Boléo

herself

J

Joaquim Pais de Brito

himself

G

Germano de Sousa

himself

J

José António Bandeirinha

himself

A

Aníbal Abrantes

himself

Rui Damasceno

himself

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