Lusitanian Illusion

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Release date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 65 minutes
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Overview

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Starring

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António de Oliveira Salazar
Self (archive footage)
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Américo Tomás
Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
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Hanna Schygulla
Erika Mann (voice)
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Rüdiger Vogler
Alfred Döblin (voice)
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Christian Patey
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)