As Armas e o Povo (1975)

Directed by

Manuel Costa e Silva, Artur Semedo, Ricardo Costa, João Matos Silva

Genre

documentary film

Country

Portugal

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary captures the days between Portugal's Carnation Revolution and the following May Day. It follows ordinary people and workers as they take part in street protests and celebrations.

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What happens

As Armas e o Povo is a Portuguese collective documentary film directed and produced by the Collective of Workers of the Cinematographic Activity, on the initiative of the National Union of Cinema Professionals that portrays the period lived between the Carnation Revolution and the Labor Day of that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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