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Lusitanian Illusion

2010
Directed byJoão Canijo
1h 5m

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.

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António de Oliveira SalazarSelf (archive footage)Américo TomásSelf - President of the Republic (archive footage)
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Hanna Schygulla
Erika Mann (voice)
Rüdiger VoglerAlfred Döblin (voice)
Christian PateyAntoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)
AnnabellaSelf (archive footage)
Danielle DarrieuxSelf (archive footage)
Louis JouvetSelf (archive footage)
Robert MontgomerySelf (archive footage)
Madeleine OzeraySelf (archive footage)
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GENRES
DocumentaryHistory
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.4

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