State of Exception

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

Cast

João Viegas himself

Feliciano David himself

Leandro Vale himself

António Lobo Fernandes himself

Helder Costa himself

Eliana Gersão herself

Emílio Rui Vilar himself

Manuel Valente himself

Helena Seabra herself

António Lopes Dias himself

Celso Cruzeiro himself

Carlos Avilez himself

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