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Film / 2008
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Directed by
Lírio Ferreira
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Caetano VelosoSelf
Maria BethâniaSelf
Gal CostaSelf
Chico BuarqueSelf
David ByrneSelf
Gilberto GilSelf
Alceu ValençaSelf
Elba RamalhoSelf
BelchiorSelf
LenineSelf
Ilka SoaresSelf
Bebel GilbertoSelf
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SivucaSelf
Zeca PagodinhoSelf
OttoSelf
FagnerSelf
Dalva de Oliveira(archive footage)
Anselmo DuarteSelf
Daniel FilhoSelf
Assis VaqueiroSelf
AzulãoSelf
Calé AlencarSelf
Carmélia AlvesSelf
Cego AntônioSelf
Cego GeováSelf
Cego OliveiraSelf
Chico FreitasSelf
Cordel do Fogo EncantadoSelf
Cristiano CâmaraSelf
Dalton VoglerSelf
Denise DummontSelf
Dona EdithSelf
Teixeira JuniorSelf
Fausto NiloSelf
Ivanira TeixeiraSelf
LirinhaSelf
Margarida JatobáSelf
Marlene TeixeiraSelf
Mauro RefoscoSelf
Mestre AldenirSelf
Mestre ExpeditoSelf
Miho HatoriSelf
Muniz SodréSelf
NirezSelf
Nonato LuizSelf
Orquestra SanfônicaSelf
OtacílioSelf
Patativa do AssaréSelf
Pedro BandeiraSelf
Raul Seixas(archive footage)
Ricardo Cravo AlbinSelf
Inácio ArrudaSelf
Tárik de SouzaSelf
Wagner TisoSelf
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