Letters to a Dictatorship
2006 · 1h · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Inês de Medeiros
,
Anne Victorino d' Almeida
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Letters to a Dictatorship
Overview
A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism that dominated Portugal for more than 50 years.
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