Outro País: Memórias, Sonhos, Ilusões… Portugal 1974/1975

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Movie
Original title Outro País: Memórias, Sonhos, Ilusões ... Portugal 1974/1975
Country of production Portugal
original language Portuguese , English , French , Russian
Publishing year 2000
length 70 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Sérgio Trefaut
script Sérgio Trefaut
production Pedro Martin's Correia
music José Mário Branco
Chico Buarque
camera Jon Jost
Rui Poças
João Ribeiro
cut José Nascimento
occupation

Outro País: Memórias, Sonhos, Ilusões ... Portugal 1974/1975 ( port. For: "Another Country: memories, dreams, illusions ... Portugal 1974/1975"), short outro País , a documentary is the Portuguese- Franco-Brazilian director Sérgio Tréfaut from 2000.

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The film explores the question of how the numerous directors and photo reporters remember the Carnation Revolution in Portugal on April 25, 1974 and the subsequent events that they reported on at the time.

In addition, he briefly presents the prehistory and then the course of the revolution in archive recordings, and a number of foreign witnesses comment on this. Among them are the Brazilian photo reporter Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia, the American director Robert Kramer , the Franco-German filmmaker Thomas Harlan , the Swedish film and television director Pea Holmquist , the photo reporter at the time and today's fashion photographer Dominique Issermann , and the two French ones Directors Michel Lequenne and Daniel Edinger . They report on their experiences and impressions, which on several visits to Portugal before, shortly after, and a few years after the revolution testify to its progress and development. Excerpts from a series of international documentaries of the Carnation Revolution are shown again and again, in particular by Glauber Rocha , Robert Kramer, Santiago Álvarez , Thomas Harlan and from the Soviet Union .

Director Tréfaut shows in the film in particular how surprised and excited the directors and photojournalist were when they met in Portugal the dynamics and profound social force of the revolution in the years 1974 to 1975 as well as the revolution in the tension of the Cold War stopped and was largely ignored. Thomas Harlan, for example, is disappointed that the world has not grasped the remarkable difference between the role of the military in Pinochet's anti-democratic coup in Chile in 1973 and the extraordinary action of the military in Portugal in 1974, where the army created the semi-fascist Estado Novo - Ended dictatorship and supported the whole country towards a socialist democracy.

reception

The film was shown under its international title Another Country at numerous international film festivals, where it won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the award for best Portuguese documentary at the Malaposta Film Festival.

Outro País was released on DVD in Portugal in 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DVD cover, Alambique Filmverlag, Lisbon 2014
  2. ↑ a b DVD website at Alambqiue DVD-Verlag, accessed on June 28, 2015
  3. ↑ Information on all of Tréfaut's films on the director's website, accessed on June 28, 2015