Director(s): Heddy Honigmann
Writer(s): Heddy Honigmann, Carlos Drummond de Andrade (poems)
Actor(s): N/A
Production Co.: First Run/Icarus Films
Country: Germany, Brazil
Year: 1996
Language and subtitle information: In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Format: VHS
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Summary: The erotic poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a household name in Brazil, remained unpublished during his lifetime, as he feared they would be deemed pornographic. In this film, elderly residents of Rio read his poems and comment on their graphic, voluptuous imagery as memories of stolen pleasures, and bittersweet melancholy unfold.
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