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The Mandarin

3.7 89 mins History   1995
Director(s): Júlio Bressane

Release Date: 06 Mon, Nov 1995

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.

Casts of The Mandarin

Fernando Eiras

as Mário Reis

Gilberto Gil

as Sinhô

Gal Costa

as Carmen Miranda

Raphael Rabello

as Heitor Villa-Lobos

Chico Buarque

as Noel Rosa

Caetano Veloso

as Lamartine Babo

Edu Lobo

as Tom Jobim

Giulia Gam

as Cientista Alemã

Mario Reis

as Self (archive footage)

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