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Letters to a Dictatorship (2006)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 0M

Director : Inês de Medeiros

Synopsis

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism that dominated Portugal for more than 50 years.

Actors

Crews

Inês de Medeiros
Inês de Medeiros
Director
Marta Pessoa
Marta Pessoa
Cinematography
Raquel Jacinto
Raquel Jacinto
Sound Recordist
Anne Victorino d'Almeida
Anne Victorino d'Almeida
Music
Inês de Medeiros
Inês de Medeiros
Editor
Dominique Pâris
Dominique Pâris
Editor
Sérgio Tréfaut
Sérgio Tréfaut
Producer

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