Movie

Lusitanian Illusion

★ 6.4/10 · 7 votes 2010 1h 5m Released

DocumentaryHistory

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Cast

António de Oliveira Salazar Self (archive footage) Américo Tomás Self - President of the Re Hanna Schygulla Erika Mann (voice) Rüdiger Vogler Alfred Döblin (voice) C Christian Patey Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( Annabella Self (archive footage)