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The Azores of Madredeus (1995)
Directed by Rob Rombout
Documentary · 40m
Lost in the Atlantic, the Azores have kept an identity of their own: sea and volcanic mountains, lush vegetation and fields of black lava, a light that changes from one moment to the next. Teresa Salgueiro, the singer of Madredeus, and Pedro Ayres Magalhães, the composer, travel from island to island and find the mixed origins of their music, traces of an imaginary Portugal: traditions that have vanished on the mainland live on here. A landscape, the words of an old man, a village feast call up their songs. Teresa’s voice, with a single guitar, rises on the shore of a still lake. “Madredeus is an isolated case,” says Pedro, “a little like the Azores, lost in the ocean.”
Cast
Teresa Salgueiro
Pedro Ayres Magalhães
Carlos Maria Trindade
Crew
- Director
- Rob Rombout
- Screenplay
- Rob Rombout
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Paul de Zaetijd
- Editor
- Adriana Moreira de Oliveira
Details
- Original title
- Les Açores de Madredeus
- Release date
- 1995-01-01
- Runtime
- 40m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- Portuguese, French
- Production
- Mona Lisa Production, RTBF, France Supervison