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.
António Guterres
António de Oliveira Salazar
Marcelo Caetano
Augusto Pinochet
Mário Soares
François Mitterrand
José Eduardo dos Santos
José Manuel Durão Barroso
Américo Tomás
Gonçalo Amorim
Fernando Rosas
António de Spínola
Belmiro de Azevedo
Américo de Amorim
Artur Santos Silva
Pina Moura
Jorge Coelho
Mira Amaral
Jorge Jardim Gonçalves
Alexandre Soares dos Santos
António Vitorino