Owners of Portugal
Donos de Portugal
Release: 2012-04-25
·Runtime: 48m
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
Portugal
Cast
José Manuel Durão Barroso
as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)
Belmiro de Azevedo
as Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage)
Jorge Coelho
as Self - Government Minister
Mira Amaral
as Self - Government Minister
Jorge Jardim Gonçalves
as Self - Banker (Archive Footage)
António Guterres
as Self (archive footage)
Artur Santos Silva
as Self - Banker (Archive Footage)
Pina Moura
as Self - Minister of Finance (Archive Footage)
Alexandre Soares dos Santos
as Self - Businessman (Archive Footage)
Marcelo Caetano
as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
Augusto Pinochet
as Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
Mário Soares
as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
António de Spínola
as Self - President of the Republic (Archive Footage)
François Mitterrand
as Self - President of France (archive footage)
Américo Tomás
as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
Gonçalo Amorim
as Narrator / Visitor from 1910
Fernando Rosas
as Self - Historian
António Vitorino
as Self - Minister of the Presidency (Archive Footage)
Américo de Amorim
as Self - Industrialist (Archive Footage)
António de Oliveira Salazar
as Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)
José Eduardo dos Santos
as Self - President of Angola (archive footage)