One room. One man. 24 hours that rewrote a nation's history.
The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that would topple the Portuguese government and start a democratic regime in Portugal - since another military coup, May 28, 1926, installed a one-party dictatorship there. The scenes in the claustrophobic operation room are recreated, with him alone and a few voices.
Direction
Lavigne traps you in that room with him
Sound
Disembodied voices build unbearable suspense
Director
Ginette Lavigne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho became so iconic that 'Otelo' became slang for revolutionary across Portugal—then controversial when he later ran for president as a communist.
The real operation room was demolished; Lavigne rebuilt it from Otelo's obsessive memory and a single photograph, making this film itself an act of historical reconstruction.
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