
Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying. Salazar wanted nurses to live like nuns, in line with Catholic conservative ideals.
Criminal Case 141/53 was directed by Susana de Sousa Dias.
Criminal Case 141/53 runs for 50min, and was released in 2000.
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