Twenty years later, the revolution's ghosts finally got their close-up.
Documentary in which the main events that marked the country and Portuguese society in the years 1974 and 1975 are chronologically addressed. The decay of the Marcelist regime, the Revolution of April 25, the troubled period of the Ongoing Revolutionary Process (PREC) , the failure of the Coup of 25 November. A film produced based on archival footage, interspersed with testimonies from some of the actors in the events of that time, to mark the 20 years of the Carnation Revolution.
Production
Four directors wrangling chaos into coherent narrative.
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a thriller sometimes.
Direction
Survivors speaking while history still breathes.
Director
Isabel Silva Costa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for RTP television, this became unofficial required viewing for Portuguese civic education — ask your Portuguese friends if they saw it in school.
The four-director structure wasn't artistic choice but political necessity — no single filmmaker could be trusted alone with this contested history.
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