The latest television project by director António-Pedro Vasconcelos, the series “Conspiracy”, will premiere this month on RTP, but will have a premiere on Friday in Lisbon, with the presence of April military personnel, public television has revealed.
“Conspiracy” is a documentary series produced by Thrust Media with RTP, conceived and directed by António-Pedro Vasconcelos and which was finalized after his death last March, an RTP source told Lusa.
According to the public broadcaster, the series has nine episodes and focuses on “everything that was behind the ‘Carnation Revolution’, with testimonies from the protagonists who prepared the military uprising”.
“Conspiracy”, which will be premiered on Friday at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, is one of RTP’s projects to mark the 50th anniversary of April 25, 1974.
When António-Pedro Vasconcelos died on March 6, the president of the 25 de Abril Association, Vasco Lourenço, said that the filmmaker was leaving “his greatest project unfulfilled”.
“Finishing this work will certainly be a great tribute that António-Pedro well deserves,” said Vasco Lourenço at the time, in a note of regret at the director’s death.
Referring to António-Pedro Vasconcelos as a “civilian of April”, the 25 de Abril Association also recalled that the director made the series “The Voice and Ears of the MFA”, “the work that opened the door to knowledge and passion about ‘how April 25, 1974 came about'”.
“Conspiracy” is one of António-Pedro Vasconcelos’ latest projects, along with the film adaptation of “The Lobster”, an unfinished work by writer José Cardoso Pires.
In March, producer Paulo Branco revealed that he would be completing the project for the film, leaving it until later to announce who would be directing it.
In 2022, in an interview with the Lusa news agency, António-Pedro Vasconcelos said that “The Lobster” was a film he was interested in making “because it has a great conflict and helps young people understand what fascism was”.
“It’s a somewhat harsher movie about what the dictatorship was like. I took the story and Cardoso Pires’ family agreed to adapt it,” explained António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
