Lusitanian Illusion(2010)

movie - first aired/released 2010-04-22 - 65 min - audience 6.4

Documentary, History

Directed by João Canijo

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.