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.

Cast

António Guterres Self (archive footage) António de Oliveira Salazar Self - Prime Minister (archive footage) Marcelo Caetano Self - Prime Minister (archive footage) Augusto Pinochet Self - President of Chile (archive footage) Mário Soares Self - Prime Minister (archive footage) François Mitterrand Self - President of France (archive footage)

José Eduardo dos Santos Self - President of Angola (archive footage)

José Manuel Durão Barroso Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage) Américo Tomás Self - President of the Republic (archive footage) Gonçalo Amorim Narrator / Visitor from 1910 Fernando Rosas Self - Historian António de Spínola Self - President of the Republic (Archive Footage)

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