Owners of Portugal ( Donos de Portugal )

Owners of Portugal (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Donos de Portugal
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
48 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Jorge Costa

Written By:
Jorge Costa

Actors:
Gonçalo Amorim

Synopsis:

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.

Owners of Portugal is based in the book of the same name, by Jorge Costa, Cecília Honório, Luís Fazenda, Francisco Louçã and Fernando Rosas, printed in 2010 by Edições Afrontamento.

That Portugal is owned Financially and Politically by an ubber class of a couple of families.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 06 October, 2012.

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