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Lusitanian Illusion

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Release Date	2010-04-22
Runtime	65 minutes
Genres	Documentary, History
Stars	António de Oliveira Salazar, Américo Tomás, Hanna Schygulla, Rüdiger Vogler, Christian Patey
Directors	João Canijo, Pedro Góis, João Braz, João Canijo, François Loubeyre

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.