A Toca do Lobo / The Wolf's Lair [Catarina Mourão, 2015]
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In the mid 1950’s my grandfather was committed to a
psychiatric hospital, my uncle became a political prisoner, and
my mother at age 11 was sent to a boarding school. Since then
she hardly saw her father and brother. Today my aunt owns the
family house where some of the secrets might be kept, but my
mother hasn't gone back since my grandfather died in 1970.
In this film I want to unravel the secrets and mysteries of
my Portuguese family during dictatorship. The cloud of Salazar’s
regime is dissipating 38 years after the Revolution of 1974. Families
can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and
discover new truths.
- Catarina Mourão