State of Exception

State of Exception

The history behind the relationship of the Theater Initiation Circle of the Academy of Coimbra and the protests and resistance to the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal

2007 pt 85 minutes

Rating: 10

Plot

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

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Cast

João Viegas

João Viegas

himself

Feliciano David

Feliciano David

himself

Leandro Vale

Leandro Vale

himself

António Lobo Fernandes

António Lobo Fernandes

himself

Helder Costa

Helder Costa

himself

Eliana Gersão

Eliana Gersão

herself

Emílio Rui Vilar

Emílio Rui Vilar

himself

Manuel Valente

Manuel Valente

himself

Helena Seabra

Helena Seabra

herself

António Lopes Dias

António Lopes Dias

himself

Celso Cruzeiro

Celso Cruzeiro

himself

Carlos Avilez

Carlos Avilez

himself

João Rodrigues

João Rodrigues

himself

Clara Boléo

Clara Boléo

herself

Joaquim Pais de Brito

Joaquim Pais de Brito

himself

Germano de Sousa

Germano de Sousa

himself

José António Bandeirinha

José António Bandeirinha

himself

Aníbal Abrantes

Aníbal Abrantes

himself

Rui Damasceno

Rui Damasceno

himself

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