Parque Mayer (2018)
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Cast
Francisco Froes, Daniela Melchior, Diogo Morgado, Miguel Guilherme
In 1933, a Lisbon theatre’s revue performers and satirists navigate the tightening limits of Estado Novo censorship.
The story
Set in 1933, the film centers on a theatre in Parque Mayer, a place described as reflecting the breadth of Portugal. The Estado Novo Constitution is approved that year, limiting the freedom of expression of those who pass through the park. Revue shows and satire have offered a way to exercise freedoms that would otherwise be impossible, but the theatre’s stories are now shaped by censorship and by efforts to evade it.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film revolves around a theatre in Parque Mayer, a place where it was possible to feel all of Portugal. The story takes place in 1933, the year the Estado Novo Constitution was approved, thereby limiting the freedom of expression enjoyed by everyone who passed through the park at the time. In this place, where revue shows and satire made it possible to exercise freedoms that would once have been impossible, stories come to be shaped by censorship and the struggle to get around it.
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