The Holy Alliance

Eduardo Geada
1980-03-19


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120 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Io Appolloni Sandra Unowned
Lia Gama Maria Unowned
Henrique Viana José Saraiva Unowned
Helena Isabel Sandra's model Unowned
Adelaide João Nurse Unowned
Luís Mascarenhas Unowned
Orlando Costa Unowned
Teresa Roby Unowned
Victor de Sousa Unowned
Camacho Costa Unowned
Carlos Santos Unowned
Norberto Barroca Unowned
Luís Alberto Unowned