How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
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Production year2017
Runtime
26m
Synopsis
In the 1920s, at his employers' request, the poet Fernando Pessoa conceived an advertising slogan for the Coca-Louca drink, which nevertheless sent the authoritarian government into a panic.
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Actors (7)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Noodles Production
- Foreign production companies : O Som e a Fúria, Les Films du Fleuve
- Film exports/foreign sales : Agência da Curta Metragem
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : Julien Naveau
- Screenwriter : Eugène Green
- Director of Photography : Raphaël O'Byrne
- Assistant Director : Bruno Lourenço
- Editor : Valérie Loiseleux
- Sound Recordist : Henri Maïkoff
- Costume designer : Patricia Dória
- Foreign producers : Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Executive Producer : Delphine Tomson
- Assistant Operator : Lisa Persson
- Camera Operator : Raphaël O'Byrne
- Production manager : Patrícia Almeida
- Sound Editor : Benoît De Clerck
- Continuity supervisor : Renata Sancho
- Production Designer : Ze Branco
- Make-up Artist : Nuno Esteves
- Sound Mixer : Stéphane Thiébaut
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Legend
- Themes : Poetry, Politics
- Production language : Portuguese
- Coproducer countries : France, Portugal, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Portugal, Belgium)
- Production year : 2017
- Runtime : 26 min 58 seconds
- Visa number : 145.118
- Visa issue date : 09/03/2018
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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