The Guns and the People

The Guns and the People (1977)

As Armas e o Povo

Portugal, 1975

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known.

Date of release
1977-11-01
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Moedas Miguel, João César Monteiro, Artur Semedo, Manuel Costa e Silva, José de Sá Caetano, José Fonseca e Costa, Fernando Lopes, Fernando Matos Silva, Eduardo Geada, Glauber Rocha, Alberto Seixas Santos, António-Pedro Vasconcelos, António da Cunha Telles, Luís Galvão Teles, Elso Roque, António de Macedo, Henrique Espírito Santo, João Matos Silva, António Escudeiro, Acácio de Almeida

Casting

Interesting facts

As Armas e o Povo is a Portuguese collective documentary film directed and produced by the Collective of Workers of the Cinematographic Activity, on the initiative of the National Union of Cinema Professionals that portrays the period lived between the Carnation Revolution and the Labor Day of that year.

Production

The production of the film was conducted by several Portuguese directors, joined by the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, who was in exile at the time, due to the military dictatorship. They were divided into ten filming teams and took to the streets where they follow the events of the first Labor Day after the revolution.

It debuted in November 1977 at the Rosa Damasceno Theater, in Santarém.

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