Lusitanian Illusion (2010)
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.
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Cast
- António de Oliveira Salazar — Self (archive footage)
- Américo Tomás — Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
- Hanna Schygulla — Erika Mann (voice)
- Rüdiger Vogler — Alfred Döblin (voice)
- Christian Patey — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)
- Annabella — Self (archive footage)
- Danielle Darrieux — Self (archive footage)
- Louis Jouvet — Self (archive footage)
- Robert Montgomery — Self (archive footage)
- Madeleine Ozeray — Self (archive footage)
- António Lopes Ribeiro — Self (archive footage)
- Tyrone Power — Self (archive footage)
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