"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
Alberto Seixas Santos
Director, Writer
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Writer
Robert Kramer
Writer
Eduardo Lourenço
Writer
Nuno Júdice
Writer

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Himself

Robert Kramer
American journalist
Eduardo Lourenço
Himself
Joaquim Furtado
Narrator (voice)
Erika Kramer
Erica Asher (woman who wrote a letter)

Jorge Silva Melo
American journalist (voice)

Zita Duarte
Woman on a river boat (voice)

Luís Miguel Cintra
Armando (voice)
Jaime Silvério Marques
Himself
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