State of Exception

State of Exception (2007)

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

  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2007-05-15
  • User Rating: 10/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
  • Language: Português
  • Production Company: Círculo de Iniciação Teatral da Academia de Coimbra (CITAC)
  • Production Country: Portugal
  • Director: Ricardo Seiça Salgado
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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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  • João Viegas

    as himself
  • Feliciano David

    as himself
  • Leandro Vale

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  • António Lobo Fernandes

    as himself
  • Helder Costa

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  • Eliana Gersão

    as herself
  • Emílio Rui Vilar

    as himself
  • Manuel Valente

    as himself
  • Helena Seabra

    as herself
  • António Lopes Dias

    as himself
  • Celso Cruzeiro

    as himself
  • Carlos Avilez

    as himself
  • João Rodrigues

    as himself
  • Clara Boléo

    as herself
  • Joaquim Pais de Brito

    as himself
  • Germano de Sousa

    as himself
  • José António Bandeirinha

    as himself
  • Aníbal Abrantes

    as himself
  • Rui Damasceno

    as himself
Directing Ricardo Seiça Salgado Director
Camera Joana Bem-Haja Director of Photography
Editing Luísa Homem Editor
Editing Tiago Hespanha Editor
Crew João Dias Post Production Supervisor
Sound Nuno Morão Sound Designer
Art Whatever ™ Graphic Designer

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