Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo

Documentary about the life, convictions and career of Portugal's first and only female Prime Minister. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo believed that "women can be a force for radical transformation of the institutionalised irrationality in which we live. The multifunctionality of their existence, the diversity of the planes on which they move, their daily lives give them a special capacity to find a new understanding and a new effectiveness for governance in the midst of complexity". Unlike many other women who have the same conviction, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo turned her life into a praxis of her own belief.

• Frédéric ChopinOriginal Music Composer
• Graça CastanheiraDirector

• Maria de Lourdes PintasilgoSelf (archive footage)
• Adelino GomesSelf
• António Ramalho EanesSelf
• Luis Sousa LoboSelf
• Eduardo LourençoSelf
• Maria José Nogueira PintoSelf
• Luís MoitaSelf
• Francisco LouçãSelf
• Maria João SeixasSelf
• Isabel Allegro de MagalhãesSelf
• Fátima GrácioSelf
• Sara Luísa GouveiaSelf