The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy

03/14/2008

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1hr 30min

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History

STORY

Portugal's Fernando Pessoa and Greece's Constantine Cavafy were two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and the literary giants finally met in 1929 aboard a transatlantic ocean liner carrying immigrants to the U.S. This genre-bending documentary from Greek filmmaker Stelios Charalambopoulos blends truth with fiction in imagining what that meeting must have been like, offering an innovative mix of archival footage and fictional re-enactments of the poets interacting with one of the ship's immigrant passengers.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Makis Arvanitakis
  • Δημήτρης Οικονομίδης
  • Othon Metaxas
  • Emilios Tsouvalis

    Director

  • Stelios Haralambopoulos

INFORMATION

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LANGUAGES

  • Greek