Marcelo Caetano
Actor · 1906 – 1980 · Lisbon, Portugal
Marcello José das Neves Alves Caetano was a Portuguese politician and scholar. He was the last prime minister of the Estado Novo regime in Portugal from 1968 to 1974, when he was overthrown during the Carnation Revolution.
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Movie6.5DocumentaryHistoryIn Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
MovieDocumentaryOwners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.