A film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These old gentelmen’s and ladies’ musicality and poetry are unveiled through their simple, but rich and meaningful, every day life in Oswaldo Cruz, a quaint neighborhood in Rio’s North Zone, that serves both as set and as a main character in this story.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Stars: Paulinho da Viola, Marisa Monte, Zeca Pagodinho, Velha Guarda da Portela
Crew: Pedro Buarque de Hollanda (Producer), Leonardo Monteiro de Barros (Producer), Luiz Noronha (Executive Producer), Eliana Soárez (Executive Producer), Natara Ney (Editor), George Saldanha (Sound Recordist)
Country: Brazil
Language: Português
Studio: Conspiração Filmes
Runtime: 88 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 05, 2008
IMDb: 3.2
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