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O Homem Que Engarrafava Nuvens
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A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
Music
Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção
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Documentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.
Documentary
Cobra Verde
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Cobra Verde

Dec 03, 1987
Au Brésil, à la fin du XIXe siècle. Petit paysan ruiné, Francisco Manoel da Silva gagne le surnom de « Cobra Verde » en tuant un homme dans les mines d'or. Devenu contremaître d'une plantation à Bahia, il fait des enfants aux trois filles de son patron, par défi. Pour se débarrasser de lui, ce dernier l'envoie au Dahomey, en Afrique, sous prétexte de réactiver le trafic des esclaves. Contre toute attente, Cobra Verde gagne l'amitié du souverain local, Bossa Ahadee, un homme fou et tyrannique, en l'aidant à résoudre un conflit frontalier. Petit à petit, cependant, les relations entre le monarque et l'aventurier se détériorent. Le premier finit par emprisonner le second…
Adventure
Poética popular
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Poética popular

Jan 01, 1970
The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.
Documentary
Ouro Velho, Mundo Novo
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Filmmakers Cláudio Assis and Lírio Ferreira go on a journey through the frontier between the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba, Brazil, to show the importance poetry holds in local culture.
Documentary