Assault on the Santa Maria

Name: Assault on the Santa Maria
Director: Francisco Manso
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2010-09-23
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Carlos Paulo, Leonor Seixas, Pedro Cunha, Alfonso Agra, Vítor Norte

2010

1h 44m

Drama Romance

Director: Francisco Manso

Writers: João Nunes, Vicente Alves do Ó

Overview

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.