António Ramalho Eanes

António Ramalho Eanes

Birth : 1935-01-25, Castelo Branco, Portugal

History

António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes is a Portuguese general and politician who was the 16th President of Portugal from 1976 to 1986.

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António Ramalho Eanes

Movies

Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril
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.
Good Portuguese People
Self (Army commander)
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.