José Afonso

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.

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The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed his esteem and united them in a covenant of justice against a "pide" assassin (eted). But the April 25 and May 1, to September 28 and March 11, follows the November 25 - striking dates a forthcoming story. Time caused the wear of the revolutionary process, exacerbating social and economic problems. In the intellectual groups of the left, where the ideological coherence flew over the everyday practice, is dug a crisis of identity and options. An early vote, perhaps radical, unites -still - a determined activist and a journalist who wonders ...

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The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist party). In direct speech, sometimes to the camera, sometimes among themselves, the uneducated rural workers expose their misery, their suffering, their hopes, and ultimately their despair - when a socialist government orders the restitution of the land to their primitive owners, and these transform the land into a hunting reserve.

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