Owners of Portugal

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.

Country:

Portugal

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

48 minutes

Year:

2012

Director:

Jorge Costa

Cast:
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)

Crew:
Edgar Feldman

Cinematography

Bruno Moraes Cabral

Cinematography

Edgar Feldman

Editor

Jorge Costa

Director