Movielogr
The Holy Alliance (1980)
Directed by Eduardo Geada
Overview
In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early ‘30s to the late ‘60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Henrique Viana | Carlos Santos | Lia Gama | Io Apolloni | Adelaide João | Camacho Costa | Teresa Roby | Orlando Costa | Luís Mascarenhas | Victor de Sousa | Helena Isabel | Luís Alberto | Norberto Barroca