State of Exception (2007)
Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.
Director: Ricardo Seiça Salgado
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João Viegas as himself |
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Feliciano David as himself |
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Leandro Vale as himself |
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António Lobo Fernandes as himself |
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Helder Costa as himself |
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Eliana Gersão as herself |
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Emílio Rui Vilar as himself |
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Manuel Valente as himself |
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Helena Seabra as herself |
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António Lopes Dias as himself |
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Celso Cruzeiro as himself |
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Carlos Avilez as himself |
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João Rodrigues as himself |
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Clara Boléo as herself |
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Joaquim Pais de Brito as himself |
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Germano de Sousa as himself |
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José António Bandeirinha as himself |
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Aníbal Abrantes as himself |
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Rui Damasceno as himself |
| Directing | Ricardo Seiça Salgado | Director |
| Camera | Joana Bem-Haja | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Luísa Homem | Editor |
| Editing | Tiago Hespanha | Editor |
| Crew | João Dias | Post Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Nuno Morão | Sound Designer |
| Art | Whatever ™ | Graphic Designer |
