Lusitanian Illusion

Original title: Fantasia Lusitana

Duration: 65 min

Release date: 2010-04-22

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Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Documentary History

Fantasia Lusitana

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António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar

as Self (archive footage)

Américo Tomás

as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

as Erika Mann (voice)

Rüdiger Vogler

as Alfred Döblin (voice)

Christian Patey

Christian Patey

as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)

as Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Darrieux

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery

as Self (archive footage)

Madeleine Ozeray

Madeleine Ozeray

as Self (archive footage)

António Lopes Ribeiro

António Lopes Ribeiro

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

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François Loubeyre

François Loubeyre

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