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Letters to a Dictatorship
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Documentary
Overview
A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism that dominated Portugal for more than 50 years.
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Runtime
60 min
Release Date
2006-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Portuguese
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