In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this emblematic film of the Portuguese revolutionary period: in which way did Harlan interfered in the events that seems to naturally develop in front of the camera? What was the impact of the film on the lives of the occupants and the memory of that period?
Self
En enero de 1961 el panorama internacional se vio alterado por el secuestro, en aguas del mar Caribe, del buque insignia de la marina comercial portuguesa, el trasatlántico Santa María, perteneciente a la Compañía Colonial de Navegación, que unía la península Ibérica con Centroamérica y Venezuela. Era la primera vez en la historia que se producía un secuestro político de un navío de este tamaño, con unas mil personas a bordo, y terminó implicando a varios gobiernos, incluido el de los Estados Unidos.
Self - LUAR leader
The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist party). In direct speech, sometimes to the camera, sometimes among themselves, the uneducated rural workers expose their misery, their suffering, their hopes, and ultimately their despair - when a socialist government orders the restitution of the land to their primitive owners, and these transform the land into a hunting reserve.
