GESTOS E FRAGMENTOS - Ensaio sobre os militares e o poder

Three variations on the theme of the relationship between the military and power in Portugal in the Twentieth Century.
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho talks of the long march that brought him to the movement of the captains from the colonial war to the coup d'état of April 25, 1974, to the crisis that destroyed the unity of the armed forces and brought on the end of the revolution in November, 1975.
A professor (Eduardo Lourenço) analyzes this descent of the military from the "non -political" heavens to very revolutionary politics .
Like in a detective movie, an American reporter (Robert Kramer) tries to put his finger on the ones guilty for the failure of the April revolution.
Finished only in 1982, Gestos e fragmentos is the film epitaph of the Portuguese revolution.

Director: Alberto Seixas Santos.
Screenplay: testi di Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Eduardo Lourenço, Robert Kramer, Nuno Júdice, Alberto Seixas Santos.
Director of photography: Acácio de Almeida, José Luis Carvalhosa.
Editor: Manuela Viegas, Teresa Caldas.
Music: Beethoven.
Sound: Maria Paola Porru.
Cast: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (se stesso), Eduardo Lourenço (il professore), Robert Kramer (il giornalista americano).
Production company: Enrique Espirito Santo, Maria Paola Porru per Grupo Zero, Cooperativa de Cinema.