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A Pide Leninha

A Pide Leninha

10AP2023•48m
Documentary

The life story of Madalena das Dores Oliveira, the first woman to reach the rank of Brigade Chief of the PIDE (the Estado Novo secret police), who became known by the inhuman way in which she acted.

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Production

RTP, Deadline Produções

Language

PT

Status

Ended

First Aired

April 26, 2023

Last Aired

April 27, 2023

Networks

RTP1

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
1st Part
E1
1st Part
Air date: 2023-04-26
The life story of Madalena das Dores Oliveira, known as Pide Leninha, inside the secret police aparatus of the Estado Novo regime, and the way in which her political fanatism and the boundless pleasure the felt in torturing her victims led her to become te first woman to reach the rank of Brigade Chief, in 1968.
2nd Part
E2
2nd Part
Air date: 2023-04-27
We continue following the life store of Madalena das Dores Oliveira, known as a Pide Leninha, who in the later years of the Salazarist dictatorship perfected her torture methods, until the world crumbled around her with the Carnation Revolution.

Cast

Ana Gargaté

Pide “Leninha”

Inês Paulino

Raquel Mendes

Vítor Ribeiro

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