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O Mistério do Samba (2008)
Directed by Carolina Jabor, Lula Buarque de Hollanda
Documentary, Music · 1h 28m
A film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These old gentelmen’s and ladies’ musicality and poetry are unveiled through their simple, but rich and meaningful, every day life in Oswaldo Cruz, a quaint neighborhood in Rio’s North Zone, that serves both as set and as a main character in this story.
Cast
Paulinho da Viola
Marisa Monte
Monarco
Casquinha da Portela
Zeca Pagodinho
Crew
- Director
- Carolina Jabor, Lula Buarque de Hollanda
- Screenplay
- Carolina Jabor, Leonardo Netto, Lula Buarque de Hollanda, Marisa Monte, Natara Ney
- Director of Photography
- Toca Seabra, Marcio Menezes
- Editor
- Natara Ney
- Producer
- Pedro Buarque de Hollanda, Leonardo Monteiro de Barros, Leonardo Netto, Lula Buarque de Hollanda, Marisa Monte
Details
- Release date
- 2008-09-05
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- Portuguese
- Countries
- Brazil
- Production
- Conspiração Filmes