In 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.
Director:
Michael Wirges
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José Pacheco Pereira
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António Muñoz Sánchez
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Luis Costa Correia
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Daniela Münkel
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Gert Peukert
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Alberto Arons de Carvalho
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Hans-Ulrich Bünger
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Rainer Bettermann
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Regina Urban
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Günter Wallraff
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Benito Mussolini
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Adolf Hitler
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António de Oliveira Salazar
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Marcelo Caetano
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António de Spínola
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Mário Soares
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Álvaro Cunhal
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Willy Brandt
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Richard Nixon
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Francisco da Costa Gomes
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Franz Josef Strauß
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António Ramalho Eanes
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