Owners of Portugal (2012)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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)

Director & Crew

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