Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.
| Directing | Manoel de Oliveira | Director |
| Writing | P. Joao Marques | Writer |
| Production | Paulo Branco | Producer |
| Writing | Manoel de Oliveira | Screenplay |
| Camera | Elso Roque | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Manoel de Oliveira | Editor |
| Editing | Sabine Franel | Editor |
| Art | Zé Branco | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Isabel Branco | Costume Design |
| Art | Luís Monteiro | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Gita Cerveira | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Anne Le Campion | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Jean-Paul Loublier | Sound Mixer |
| Crew | Georges Demétrau | Special Effects |
| Art | Jeanne Waltz | Props |
| Sound | Alejandro Massó | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Gerardo Herrero | Producer |
