Cartas a Uma Ditadura

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Portugal, 2008, 60 min

Directed by:

Inês de Medeiros

Plots(1)

One hundred letters written by Portuguese women in 1958 during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance by a collector of books and old documents. He did not read them because he believed they were love letters. In all of the letters, these women express the gratitude and admiration they have for the dictator. But, as though the need to talk spoke louder, among stock phrases, there arise, at times, fear, sadness, and isolation which Portugal lived in the fifties. (Seminci - Valladolid International Film Festival)

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