Barronhos – Quem teve medo do poder popular ?

  • Luis Filipe Rocha
  • 1976
  • Portugal
  • 52 minutes
  • Portuguese
  • © Cinemateca Portuguesa
    © 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