Torre Bela

Shot in Portugal in 1975 by Thomas Harlan, this film is considered a classic of left-wing political cinema. Harlan and his crew mingle with the farmers and farm labourers of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution as they are in the process of socialising a count's estate. What Harlan succeeds in doing has almost fictional qualities, leading to stage-like scenes, to a kind of theatre of revolution in which staging and document can no longer be distinguished. Scenes of great humour and wonderful pathos are created and a breath of fresh air blows through the old corridors and dark halls of the castle.