The Holy Alliance

The Holy Alliance (1980)

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.

Director: Eduardo Geada
Writers: Edgar Gonsalves Preto, Eduardo Geada, Manuel Machado da Luz.

Casts

	Io Appolloni as Sandra
	Lia Gama as Maria
	Henrique Viana as José Saraiva
	Helena Isabel as Sandra's model
	Adelaide João as Nurse
	Luís Mascarenhas as
	Orlando Costa as
	Teresa Roby as
	Victor de Sousa as
	Camacho Costa as
	Carlos Santos as
	Norberto Barroca as
	Luís Alberto as

Crew