Owners of Portugal

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 25, 2012

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken languages

Portuguese

Countries

Portugal

Cast

António Guterres,António de Oliveira Salazar,Marcelo Caetano,Augusto Pinochet,Mário Soares,François Mitterrand,José Eduardo dos Santos,José Manuel Durão Barroso,Américo Tomás,Gonçalo Amorimand 11 more

Director

Jorge Costa

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2146688