Owners of Portugal (2012)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2012-04-25
Runtime: 48 minutes
Director: Jorge Costa
Top Cast
- António Guterres as Self (archive footage)
- António de Oliveira Salazar as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
- Marcelo Caetano as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
- Augusto Pinochet as Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
- Mário Soares as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
- François Mitterrand as Self - President of France (archive footage)
- José Eduardo dos Santos as Self - President of Angola (archive footage)
- José Manuel Durão Barroso as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)
- Américo Tomás as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
- Gonçalo Amorim as Narrator / Visitor from 1910
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