Assault on the Santa Maria

Original title: Assalto ao Santa Maria

Duration: 104 min

Release date: 2010-09-23

IMDB

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.

Drama Romance

Assalto ao Santa Maria

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as Capitão Henrique Galvão

as Comandante Jorge de Sottomayor

as Tenente-Coronel Alfredo Enes

as Velo Mosquera

João Maria Pinto

João Maria Pinto

as Comandante Mário Simões Maia

António Pedro Cerdeira

António Pedro Cerdeira

as Camilo Mortágua

as Amália Enes

as Joaquim Paiva

as General Humberto Delgado

as Jornalista Americano

Marcelo Melendreras

Marcelo Melendreras

as Imediato Inácio

Joaquim José Escaleira

Joaquim José Escaleira

as Radiotelegrafista Ferraz

Christian Escuredo

Christian Escuredo

as Luis Ackerman

Adriano Martins

Adriano Martins

as Piloto Nascimento Costa

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Francisco Manso

Francisco Manso

Vicente Alves do Ó

Vicente Alves do Ó

Original Music Composer

Kostas Christides

Kostas Christides

Original Music Composer

José António Loureiro

José António Loureiro

Director of Photography

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