A Pide Leninha

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.

Documentary

A Pide Leninha

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.

Documentary

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First Aired on: Apr 26, 2023
Popularity: 1.736: 0 votes
Networks: (PT)
Production: RTP (PT)Deadline Produções
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 2 episodes

Miniseries

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.

Aired 2 years ago

2 Episodes

Episode 11st Part48 min
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.
Episode 22nd Part48 min
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.