The Mandarin
06/11/1995
1h 29m



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 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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