Lusitanian Illusion

(2010)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Documentary, History

Year: 2010

Runtime: 65 мин

Country: Portugal

Director: João Canijo

Cast: António de Oliveira Salazar, Américo Tomás, Ханна Шигулла, Rüdiger Vogler, Christian Patey, Annabella, Danielle Darrieux, Louis Jouvet, Роберт Монтгомери, Madeleine Ozeray

Plot

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.