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.
Top Cast
António de Oliveira Salazar as Self (archive footage)
Américo Tomás as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
Hanna Schygulla as Erika Mann (voice)
Rüdiger Vogler as Alfred Döblin (voice)
Christian Patey as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)
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