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A film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These old gentelmen’s and ladies’ musicality and poetry are unveiled through their simple, but rich and meaningful, every day life in Oswaldo Cruz, a quaint neighborhood in Rio’s North Zone, that serves both as set and as a main character in this story.
Casts

Paulinho da Viola
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Marisa Monte
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Jair do Cavaquinho
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Hildmar Diniz
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Casquinha da Portela
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Casemiro
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Argemiro da Portela
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Zeca Pagodinho
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Dona Neném
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Áurea
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Tia Doca
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Tia Surica
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Tia Eunice
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Crews

Natara Ney
Editor
Leonardo Monteiro de Barros
Producer
Yan Saldanha
Sound Recordist
Eliana Soárez
Executive Producer
Jorge Saldanha
Sound Recordist
Luiz Noronha
Executive Producer
Pedro Buarque de Hollanda
Producer
George Saldanha
Sound Recordist

Carolina Jabor
Director
Lula Buarque de Hollanda
Director

Marisa Monte
Music Director

Toca Seabra
Director of Photography
Marcio Menezes
Director of Photography

Carolina Jabor
Screenplay
Leonardo Netto
Screenplay
Lula Buarque de Hollanda
Screenplay

Marisa Monte
Screenplay

Natara Ney
Screenplay
Leonardo Netto
Producer
Lula Buarque de Hollanda
Producer

Marisa Monte
Producer
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