The Holy Alliance (1980)

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.

Released

1980-03-19

Runtime

120 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Eduardo Geada, Eduardo Geada, Edgar Gonsalves Preto, Manuel Machado da Luz

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 1 votes