The voice of "Oscar" on the telephone is the voice of lieutenant-colonel Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, acting the role he had played years before in real life. In 1974, it was he (as a major) who organized and planned the revolution that the film depicts, and it was he who commanded the troops from Headquarters at Pontinha. His code name was "Oscar." When the armed forces came from Santarém to Lisbon on 25 April 1974, they really did stop at red lights as in the film. Ca ...[Read Story ]