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Script: Susana de Sousa Dias
Photography: O. E. Santo
Editing: S. Dias
Sound: A. Carvalho
Music: A. Dias
Production, Co-production: Ansgar Schaefer
Color: Black and white
Synopsis

1 arrest 2 interrogation, imprisonment 3 photographs: inner monologues 4 a suffocating audio track 5 the anthropometrics of political opponents 6 experiment transformed into an ethical attack 7 visual standards of mug shot: front-view, profile 8 regime supported by church, army, corporations, secret police 9 film of photographs a somnambulant gateway to cruel reality 10 a purely aesthetic film presenting the stories of political prisoners 20 The silent dictator Salazar ruled Portugal and its colonies for 48 years - the director takes testimony of years of imprisonment, as told by victims of the regime, and innovatively combines it with photographs from the archives of the secret police, the PIDE.

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Festival edition: 2010
Section: Opus bonum
Awards: Nejlepší světový dokumentární film
Exhibition format:DigiBeta PAL
Language:pt
Subtitle languages:en

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