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Comissioned by António Costa, Lisbon's mayor, Bruno made a short tribute film to General Humberto Delgado in memory of his legendary arrival at Lisbon's Santa Apolónia train Station, in 1958, where he was meet by the fascist police. Bruno is currently in pre-production with "Operation Autumn" a feature about the General's 1965 brutal assasination by the Salazar regime. The screenplay is by Bruno de Almeida and Frederico Delgado Rosa, the general's grandson and biogapher. Paulo Branco is attached to produce. Humberto Delgado and his Brazilian secretary Arajaryr Campos, where murdered in February 1965, after being attracted to an ambush by the regime's secret police (PIDE) near the border town of Olivenza. Their bodies where found two months later, near Villanueva del Fresno (Spain). Portuguese dictator Salazar, who approved the operation, later appeared on national television claiming to be ignorant of the political police's involvement and blaming quarrels between opposition forces for the event. |