April Captains

Capitães de Abril
Directed byMaria de Medeiros
Written byMaria de Medeiros
Ève Deboise
Produced byMarianne Dumoulin
Gerardo Fernandes
Rui Louro
StarringStefano Accorsi
Maria de Medeiros
Joaquim de Almeida
Frédéric Pierrot
CinematographyMichel Abramowicz
Edited byJacques Witta
Music byAntónio Victorino de Almeida
Distributed byLusomundo
Release date
  • 21 April 2000 (2000-04-21)
Running time
123 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Italy
LanguagePortuguese

April Captains (Portuguese: Capitães de Abril) is a 2000 film telling the story of the Carnation Revolution, the military coup that overthrew the corporatist dictatorship (known as the Estado Novo) in Portugal on 25 April 1974. Although dramatised, the plot is closely based on the events of the revolution and many of the key characters are real - such as Captain Salgueiro Maia and Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.

This European co-production was directed by Maria de Medeiros.[1] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

  1. ^ "Maria Medeiros fala de seu filme". Estadão (in Brazilian Portuguese). 1 August 2000. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: April Captains". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 22 July 2021.