Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.

• Sebastian HeemannDirector
• Tilo WagnerDirector

• Michael WirgesSelf
• José Pacheco PereiraSelf
• António Muñoz SánchezSelf
• Luis Costa CorreiaSelf
• Daniela MünkelSelf
• Gert PeukertSelf
• Alberto Arons de CarvalhoSelf
• Hans-Ulrich BüngerSelf
• Rainer BettermannSelf
• Regina UrbanSelf
• Günter WallraffSelf
• Benito MussoliniSelf (archive footage)