1506 - The Lisbon Genocide

Directed by Luís Ismael

With Carlos Sebastião, Nuno Sá, Rui Spranger, Fábio Alves and João Pamplona

The movie “1506 – The Lisbon Genocide” shows a massacre against the Jews that has been forgotten. On the 19th April begun the start of the massacre which for three days assassinated about three thousand Jews in Lisbon. The bonfires went as high as the houses, in a city filled with quartered bodies where heads were paraded on the points of spears.