Owners of Portugal

48m

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Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.

Cast

António Guterres

Self (archive footage)

António de Oliveira Salazar

Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)

Marcelo Caetano

Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)

Augusto Pinochet

Self - President of Chile (archive footage)

Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)

François Mitterrand

Self - President of France (archive footage)

José Eduardo dos Santos

Self - President of Angola (archive footage)

José Manuel Durão Barroso

Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)

Américo Tomás

Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)

Gonçalo Amorim

Narrator / Visitor from 1910

Self - Historian

António de Spínola

Self - President of the Republic (Archive Footage)

Belmiro de Azevedo

Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage)

Américo de Amorim

Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage)

Artur Santos Silva

Self - Banker (Archive Footage)

Self - Minister of Finance (Archive Footage)

Self - Government Minister

Self - Government Minister

Jorge Jardim Gonçalves

Self - Banker (Archive Footage)

Alexandre Soares dos Santos

Self - Businessman (Archive Footage)

António Vitorino

Self - Minister of the Presidency (Archive Footage)

Crew

Editor, Cinematography

Bruno Moraes Cabral