State of Exception (2007)
Estado de Excepção CITAC: um projeto etnohistórico (1956-1978)
Overview
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.
What is State of Exception about?
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. State of Exception is a Documentary, History movie, released on 2007-05-15, runtime 85 minutes.
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Directed by
Ricardo Seiça Salgado
Cast
- João Viegas as himself
- Feliciano David as himself
- Leandro Vale as himself
- António Lobo Fernandes as himself
- Helder Costa as himself
- 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
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