In four sessions, the Images of the Great War cinema cycle revisits a painful memory: the beginning of conflict in the African colonies, the departure of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps for Flanders, the first filmed reports capturing the reality for the thousands of Portuguese youth mobilised for battle and constituting a documented account of the experiences of recruitment, training, deployment to the front, the tragedy of life in the trenches, the traumas of confinement and return.

The miracle of Tancos references the extraordinary level of improvisation that in three months saw the transformation of the Tancos military polygon into a structure capable of hosting and training twenty thousand soldiers. The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps departed in January 1917 to fight in Flanders on the European front of the Great War. The political and social price of this miracle would profoundly impact on the early decades of the 20th century in Portugal.

Film of 2014

At the end of the session there will be an open conversation with Fernando Rosas, moderated by Rui Vieira Nery.

Maximum 2 tickets per person.

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