The Holy Alliance

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.

• Eduardo GeadaDirector
• Eduardo GeadaScreenplay
• Edgar Gonsalves PretoScreenplay
• Manuel Machado da LuzScreenplay

• Io AppolloniSandra
• Lia GamaMaria
• Henrique VianaJosé Saraiva
• Helena IsabelSandra's model
• Adelaide JoãoNurse
• Luís MascarenhasCast
• Orlando CostaCast
• Teresa RobyCast
• Victor de SousaCast
• Camacho CostaCast
• Carlos SantosCast
• Norberto BarrocaCast