Brazil's Maria Bethânia

Synopsis

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.

Main Cast

Maria Bethânia

Self

Age : 77 | Popularity : 5%

Caetano Veloso

Self

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Chico Buarque

Self

Age : 79 | Popularity : 5%

Gilberto Gil

Self

Age : 81 | Popularity : 4%

Naná Vasconcelos

Self

Age : 71 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Sound	Francis Wargnier
Directing	Director	Hugo Santiago
	Assistant Director	Flavia Laçerda Jorane de Castro
Camera	Director of Photography	Luís Abramo
	Assistant Camera	Toni Paula
Editing	Editor	Stéphane Huter
	Assistant Editor	Grégoire Lordereau
Production	Production Director	Sophie Faudel
Department	Role	Name

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