Lusitanian Illusion

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.

• João CanijoDirector
• João CanijoWriter

• António de Oliveira SalazarSelf (archive footage)
• Américo TomásSelf - President of the Republic (archive footage)
• Hanna SchygullaErika Mann (voice)
• Rüdiger VoglerAlfred Döblin (voice)
• Christian PateyAntoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)
• AnnabellaSelf (archive footage)
• Danielle DarrieuxSelf (archive footage)
• Louis JouvetSelf (archive footage)
• Robert MontgomerySelf (archive footage)
• Madeleine OzeraySelf (archive footage)
• António Lopes RibeiroSelf (archive footage)
• Tyrone PowerSelf (archive footage)