Christian Patey

Pour être entré en possession, tout à fait innocemment, d’un faux billet de cinq cents francs, Yvon va être victime d’une série d’injustices qui provoqueront sa chute.

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.

Avide de puissance et de gloire, Bonaparte entame la campagne d'Egypte. Loin de ces preoccupations guerrieres, Caffarelli, l'un de ses generaux, part a la decouverte de ce pays et de son ame. Il va s'opposer a l'action exclusivement destructrice de Bonaparte.

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.