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Barronhos – Quem teve medo do poder popular ?

Luis Filipe Rocha
1976 Portugal 52 minutes Portuguese
© Cinemateca Portuguesa

June 23, 1975 : a slum in Barronhos, near Lisbon. A member of the local civic rights group is found assassinated. The result of the contradictions surrounding a housing development project set up after the revolution. The film resituates crime in the socio-political context then prevalent in Portugal.

Production :
Instituto português de Cinema
Editing :
José Pedro Andrade de Santos
Sound :
Eduardo Duarte
Photography :
João Abel Aboim; Francisco Silva

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