Criminal Case 141/53

(2000)

★ 7 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2000

Runtime: 50 мин

Country: Portugal

Director: Susana de Sousa Dias

Plot

Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying. Salazar wanted nurses to live like nuns, in line with Catholic conservative ideals.