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O Mistério do Samba (2008)

O Mistério do Samba (2008)

Music Documentary
Release Date: 2008, September 5
Directors: Lula Buarque de Hollanda, Carolina Jabor
Countries: Brazil
Production: Conspiração Filmes
Cast: Paulinho da Viola, Marisa Monte, Zeca Pagodinho, Tia Surica, Jair do Cavaquinho, Monarco, Casquinha da Portela, Casemiro, Argemiro da Portela, Dona Neném, Áurea, Tia Doca

Overview:

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.