Good Portuguese People

Good Portuguese People

135 mins | Documentary | Nov. 18, 1981

Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal European style democracy.

Good Portuguese People

135 mins | Documentary | Nov. 18, 1981

Good Portuguese People
Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal European style democracy.
Producers
Original title Bom Povo Português
Directors Rui Simões
Writers Teresa Sá, Rui Simões

Cast

José Mário Branco

as Narrator (voice)

Durand Clemente

as Himself (revolutionary lieutenant)

Álvaro Cunhal

as Himself (PCP leader)

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

as Himself (revolutionary captain)

Galvão de Melo

as Himself (member of the military junta)

António de Spínola

as Himself (President of the Republic)

Diogo Freitas do Amaral

as Himself (CDS leader)

Adelino Gomes

as Himself (radio reporter)

Vasco Gonçalves

as Himself (colonel and Prime Minister)

António Ramalho Eanes

as Self (Army commander)