Through archive footage and eyewitness accounts, this documentary retraces the famous Carnation Revolution, which put an end, in just twenty-four hours, to the longest dictatorship Western Europe had known in the 20th century. With the ...See moreThrough archive footage and eyewitness accounts, this documentary retraces the famous Carnation Revolution, which put an end, in just twenty-four hours, to the longest dictatorship Western Europe had known in the 20th century. With the help of historians, it reveals the inner workings of a decisive episode in Portugal's history, from pacifist military action to the first free parliamentary elections in April 1976, via the influence of Paris, Moscow and East Berlin. Half a century later, we take a look back at the birth of modern Portugal, on which the breakthrough of the far-right Chega party in the March 10 legislative elections casts a disturbing shadow.
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