Lusitanian Illusion
DocumentaryHistory
6.4
6.41h 5m
April 22, 2010
Overview
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
Director
João Canijo
Cast
António de Oliveira Salazar
Self (archive footage)
Américo Tomás
Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
Hanna Schygulla
Erika Mann (voice)
Rüdiger Vogler
Alfred Döblin (voice)
C
Christian Patey
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)
Annabella
Self (archive footage)
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