Owners of Portugal (2012)
Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.
Director: Jorge Costa
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António Guterres as Self (archive footage) |
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António de Oliveira Salazar as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage) |
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Marcelo Caetano as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage) |
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Augusto Pinochet as Self - President of Chile (archive footage) |
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Mário Soares as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage) |
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François Mitterrand as Self - President of France (archive footage) |
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José Eduardo dos Santos as Self - President of Angola (archive footage) |
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José Manuel Durão Barroso as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage) |
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Américo Tomás as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage) |
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Gonçalo Amorim as Narrator / Visitor from 1910 |
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Fernando Rosas as Self - Historian |
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António de Spínola as Self - President of the Republic (Archive Footage) |
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Belmiro de Azevedo as Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage) |
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Américo de Amorim as Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage) |
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Artur Santos Silva as Self - Banker (Archive Footage) |
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Pina Moura as Self - Minister of Finance (Archive Footage) |
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Jorge Coelho as Self - Government Minister |
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Mira Amaral as Self - Government Minister |
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Jorge Jardim Gonçalves as Self - Banker (Archive Footage) |
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Alexandre Soares dos Santos as Self - Businessman (Archive Footage) |
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António Vitorino as Self - Minister of the Presidency (Archive Footage) |
| Crew | Edgar Feldman | Cinematography |
| Editing | Edgar Feldman | Editor |
| Crew | Bruno Moraes Cabral | Cinematography |
| Directing | Jorge Costa | Director |
