The Holy Alliance (1980)
2h
Running Time
March 19, 1980Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Io Appolloni
Sandra
Lia Gama
Maria
Henrique Viana
José Saraiva
Helena Isabel
Sandra's model
Adelaide João
Nurse
Luís Mascarenhas
Orlando Costa
Teresa Roby
António Anjos
Actor #1
Victor de Sousa
Baptista Fernandes
Actor
Camacho Costa
Cândido Mota
Seminar rector
Carlos Santos
Eduardo Geada
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Edgar Gonsalves Preto
Screenplay / Assistant Director
Manuel Machado da Luz
Screenplay
Pedro Osório
Music
Manuel Costa e Silva
Director of Photography
Francisco Silva
Director of Photography
Sebastião Godinho
Art Direction
Maria da Conceição Madureira
Makeup Artist
João Carlos Gorjão
Sound Designer
Bento Palma
Sound Designer
Details.
Release DateMarch 19, 1980
Original NameA Santa Aliança
StatusReleased
Running Time2h
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