Captains of April

Capitaines of April is a film of Maria de Medeiros carried out in 2000.

Synopsis

Captains of April recalls the Révolution of the eyelets which was held the 24 and April 25th 1974 and reversed the Estado Novo created by Salazar and continued by Marcelo Caetano. This film follows various protagonists like the captain Salgueiro Maia (Stefano Accorsi) or Handbook played by (Frederic Pierrot).

Data sheet

Scenario writer:

* Maria de Medeiros

* Eve Deforests

Director of the photography: Michel Abramowicz
Type-setter: Antonio Victorino d' Almeida
Assembler: Jacques Witta
decorator Chief: Agusti Camps Salat
Costumière: Sabina Daigeler
Sound engineer: Jerome Thiault

Distribution

Maia Stefano Accorsi
Gervasio Joaquim de Almeida
Manuel Frederic Pierrot
Lobao Fele Martinez
Fonseca Manuel Joao Vieira
Silva Marcantonio Del Carlo
Botehlo Emmanuel Salinger
Rosa Rita Durao
Gabriel Manuel Manquina
Daniel Duarte Guimaraes
Fernandes Manuel Lobao
Brigadeiro feed Luis Miguel Cintra
Filipe Joaquim Leitao
Salieri Canto E Castro
Rui Gama Rogerio Samora
Emilio Pedro Hestnes
Animateur radio operator Marcello Urgeghe
Paulo Ruivo Jose Airosa
Technicien radio operator Jose Boavida
Chamarro Antonio Capelo
Spinola Ruy de Carvalho
Caetano Ricardo Feed
Virgilio Jose Eduardo
Pedro Peter Michael
Amelia Raquel Mariano
Cesario Horacio Santos
Maria de Medeiros

Rewards

Captains of April was multiple times preceded:

better film 2000 with the Mostra of Sao Paulo,
price of the public to the Festival of Arcachon in 2000
better film and better actress for the Globo of ouro to the Portugal in 2001)

Around film

Maria de Medeiros said: I always imagined the Portuguese Revolution like a film of adventures. Having lengthily consulted his true protagonists, I know that themselves were seen, this day, a little like Hollywood heroes. The cinema drew its subjects in the History much. The Captains of April being so strongly marked by the war, it appeared to me that it was the “film of war” as a kind which I was to explore, from the necessarily different point of view, since female .

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