Owners of Portugal 2012
7.3 / 10
Owners of Portugal
Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.
Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.
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Full Cast & Crew
... Himself (archive footage)
... Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
... Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
... Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
... Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
... Self - President of France (archive footage)
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Release Date:
Apr 25, 2012 (Portugal)
Run Time:
48`
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Original Language:
Portuguese
Production Countries:
Portugal
Status:
Released
Cast & Crew of
Owners of Portugal - Owners of Portugal
Directors & Credit Writers
JC
Jorge Costa... Director
Cast
... Himself (archive footage)
... Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
... Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
... Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
... Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
... Self - President of France (archive footage)
... Self - President of Angola (archive footage)
... Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)
... Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
... Narrator / Visitor from 1910
... Self - Historian
... Self - President of the Republic (Archive Footage)
... Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage)
... Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage)
... Self - Banker (Archive Footage)
... Self - Minister of Finance (Archive Footage)
... Self - Government Minister
... Self - Government Minister
... Self - Banker (Archive Footage)
... Self - Businessman (Archive Footage)
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