Self (archive footage)
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.
Self
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.
Himself
Un temible bandido del siglo XIX, Cobra Verde atraviesa Brasil hasta llegar a la plantación de azúcar de Don Octávio Countinho. Sin saber que su nuevo invitado es el famoso bandido e impresionado por sus maneras despiadadas, Don Octávio contrata a Cobra Verde para supervisar a sus esclavos. Pero cuando Cobra Verde impregna a las tres hijas de Don Octávio, el dueño de la plantación enfurecida exilia al forajido a África, donde se espera que vuelva a abrir la trata de esclavos. Después de su viaje transatlántico, Cobra Verde explota los conflictos tribales para tomar una fortaleza abandonada y azota a un ejército de guerreros desnudos en una sed de sangre frenética mientras compite por sobrevivir.
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.
Ele mesmo
The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.
