Lusitanian Illusion
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.
Top Cast

António de Oliveira Salazar
as Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)

Américo Tomás
as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)

Hanna Schygulla
as Erika Mann (voice)
Erika Mann (voice)
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