Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars

Overview

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Blaise Cendrars

Self (archive footage)

Othon Bastos

Blaise Cendrars (voice)

Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes

Oswald de Andrade (voice)

Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda

Graça Aranha

Mário de Andrade

Tarsila do Amaral