Álvaro Cunhal

Álvaro Cunhal: A Vida de um Resistente

Biographical documentary about Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal (1913-2005), lider of the Portuguese Communist Party for over half a century, living in clandestinity during the "New State" dictatorship. Divided in two parts: "What To Do?" and "The State And The Revolution", produced in 2005 and released on DVD in 2006 to commemorate the first year of Álvaro Cunhal's death.

Alvaro Cunhal

A personal biography of the leader of the PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) seen through the eyes of those who were close to him and those who studied his trajectory and thought.

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.

Deus Pátria Autoridade

The history of Portugal since the Republican revolution of 1910 to the revolutionary period following the military coup of April 24, 1974, recounted with a marxist perspective, using historic sound and film documents. The title refers to a trilogy of values proclaimed by Salazar, prime minister of Portugal in 1936.

As Armas e o Povo

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.