How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal

How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
2018
★★★☆☆ 6.4/10
⏱️ 27 min
📅 Released
🌐 PT
Comedy
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.

Cast

Carloto Cotta
Carloto Cotta
Fernando Pessoa / Álvaro de Campos
Manuel Mozos
Manuel Mozos
Mr. Moitinho de Almeida
Diogo Dória
Diogo Dória
Minister of Health
Alexandre Pieroni Calado
Alexandre Pieroni Calado
Mourinho / Poem Voice (voice)
Ricardo Gross
Ricardo Gross
Father Marinheiro Bicha da Horta
Mia Tomé
Mia Tomé
Painter's Model

Crew

Director
Eugène Green
Writer
Eugène Green
Producer
Luc Dardenne, Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar

Production

Noodles Production, Les Films du Fleuve, O Som e a Fúria, RTP, France Télévisions

Keywords

1920sportrait of an artistadvertising campaigncontroversial advertisinglisboa, portugalheteronym in literatureshort film