Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, is a retired Portuguese military officer. He was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon. After the Revolution, Otelo assumed leadership roles in the first Portuguese Provisional Governments, alongside Vasco Gonçalves and Francisco da Costa Gomes, and as the head of military defense force COPCON. In 1976, Otelo ran in the first Portuguese presidential election, in which he placed second with the base of his support coming from the far-left. In the 1980s Otelo was accused of having involvement with the controversial Forças Populares 25 de Abril.
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Place of Birth | Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique |
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1981
Good Portuguese People
6.5/4
Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews...
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Good Portuguese People
1983
Gestures and Fragments
8/1
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on thr...
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Gestures and Fragments
2000
Se a Memória Existe
0/0
A dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a...
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Se a Memória Existe
1981
Oxalá
2/1
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
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Oxalá
2000
April Captains
6.4/58
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salaz...
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April Captains
2001
A Noite do Golpe de Estado
0/0
The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that...
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A Noite do Golpe de Estado
1994
Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril
0/0
Documentary in which the main events that marked the country and Portuguese society in the years 1974 and 1975 are chronologically addressed. The deca...
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Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril
2000
Monsanto
0/0
Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolutio...
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Monsanto
2017
The Voice and Ears of MFA
0/0
Documentary short about the April’s Captains and the Carnation Revolution from the point of view of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement)- a coalition of Mi...
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The Voice and Ears of MFA
2000
Anos de Guerra - Guiné 1963-1974
0/0
The colonial war. Remembering the past, filming the present, thinking about the future. Collection of testimonies of ex-combatants still alive and arc...
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Anos de Guerra - Guiné 1963-1974
1978
O Meu Nome É...
5/3
The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed his esteem and united them in a covenant of justic...
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