Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship
Release date: 2024-04-16
Votes: 2
Genres: Documentary, History, TV Movie
In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
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