The Mandarin

Overview

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.

Top Cast

Fernando Eiras

Mário Reis

Gilberto Gil

Sinhô

Gal Costa

Carmen Miranda

R

Raphael Rabello

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Chico Buarque

Noel Rosa

Caetano Veloso

Lamartine Babo