Américo Tomás

Américo Tomás

Acting
1894-11-19
Lisbon, Portugal

Biography

Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás was a Portuguese Navy officer and politician who served as the 13th President of Portugal from 1958 to 1974.

Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles

#1Owners of Portugal

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)

8.8 / 10
Documentary

Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.

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#2Lusitanian Illusion

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m as Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)

6.4 / 10
DocumentaryHistory

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.

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#3Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryTV Movie

Documentary in which the main events that marked the country and Portuguese society in the years 1974 and 1975 are chronologically addressed. The decay of the Marcelist regime, the Revolution of April 25, the troubled period of the Ongoing Revolutionary Process (PREC) , the failure of the Coup of 25 November. A film produced based on archival footage, interspersed with testimonies from some of the actors in the events of that time, to mark the 20 years of the Carnation Revolution.

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#4Terra de Pão, Terra de Luta

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

10.0 / 10
Documentary

José Nascimento films the process of the Agrarian Reform that happened in the Portuguese region of Alentejo during the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution.

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