

Fantasia Lusitana
April 22, 2010
1h 5m
PT
João Canijo
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.

António de Oliveira Salazar
Self (archive footage)

Américo Tomás
Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)

Hanna Schygulla
Erika Mann (voice)

Rüdiger Vogler


João Canijo
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Alfred Döblin (voice)

Christian Patey
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)

Annabella
Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux
Self (archive footage)

Louis Jouvet
Self (archive footage)

Robert Montgomery
Self (archive footage)

Madeleine Ozeray
Self (archive footage)
Periferia Filmes
PT