How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
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How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal 2018 The director discusses his new "mini-film," devoted to the great Portuguese poet, advertising, and the fight to bring Coca-Cola to Portugal. With director Eugène Green, it’s always key to be attentive to one’s surroundings. Accordingly, French cinema’s foremost native New Yorker agreed to meet me on a picturesque piazza where he was spending the morning with an espresso and getting some writing done. Green had arrived in muggy Locarno, Switzerland for the premiere of his newest work, the “mini-film,” How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal. Addeddate2021-02-11 23:14:29Identifiercomo-fernando-pessoa-salvou-portugal-2018-1ScannerInternet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4
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- Director
- Eugène Green
- Starring
- Carloto Cotta, Manuel Mozos, Diogo Dória, Alexandre Pieroni Calado, Ricardo Gross, Mia Tomé, Eugène Green, Zé Branco
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