State of Exception 2007
"The history behind the relationship of the Theater Initiation Circle of the Academy of Coimbra and the protests and resistance to the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal"
Overview
Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in men
Director: Ricardo Seiça Salgado
Cast
João Viegas
himself
Feliciano David
himself
Leandro Vale
himself
António Lobo Fernandes
himself
Helder Costa
himself
Eliana Gersão
herself
Emílio Rui Vilar
himself
Manuel Valente
himself
Helena Seabra
herself
António Lopes Dias
himself