Perseguidos pela Nação, exaltados pelo Cinema

Abstract

This article aims to identify the representations of communism in the portuguease film The May Revolution, directed by Antonio Lopes Ribeiro - the regime cineasta- and dropped in 1937. Directly financed by the National Propaganda Secretary (SPN) in commemoration of ten years of the May 28,1926 revolution that established the military dictatorship, the film was one of only two propaganda films produced by the regime. The May Revolution tells a history about Cesar Valente, portuguease and communist who came back to Portugal clandestinely in order to realize a revolution. Although, when finding improvements made by the New State, the protagonist becomes an adept of the regime and the comunist ideas are finally defeated.