A great homage to Brazilian popular music and a great film

The Mandarin

4.8 (4 votes)• 1995• 89m•Released

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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.

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Languages: Portuguese

Director: Júlio Bressane

Starring Cast: Fernando Eiras, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Raphael Rabello, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso

Cast

Fernando Eiras

Mário Reis

Gilberto Gil

Sinhô

Gal Costa

Carmen Miranda

Raphael Rabello

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Chico Buarque

Noel Rosa

Caetano Veloso

Lamartine Babo

Pascoal Villaboim

Rubens Santos

Edu Lobo

Tom Jobim

Renata Sorrah

Giulia Gam

Cientista Alemã

Costinha

Guará Rodrigues

João Rebello

Noa Bressane

Tande Bressane

Narcisa Tamborindeguy

Ivan Cardoso

Mario Reis

Self (archive footage)

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