Film

Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção

10.019751h 8mDocumentary

Director: Tânia Quaresma
Year: 1975

Documentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.

Top cast

Cego Oliveira

Pinto do Monteiro

Caju

Castanha

Directed by

Tânia Quaresma

Written by

Tânia Quaresma

Produced by

Aluizio Falcão