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The Mandarin
Film / 1995

The Mandarin

Directed by Júlio Bressane
History

★ 4.8/10Audience rating

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.

The story

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.

Cast

Fernando EirasMário Reis Gilberto GilSinhô Gal CostaCarmen Miranda Raphael RabelloHeitor Villa-Lobos Chico BuarqueNoel Rosa Caetano VelosoLamartine Babo Pascoal Villaboim Rubens Santos Edu LoboTom Jobim Renata Sorrah Giulia GamCientista Alemã Costinha
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Guará Rodrigues João Rebello Noa Bressane Tande Bressane Narcisa Tamborindeguy Ivan Cardoso Mario ReisSelf (archive footage)

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