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The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy

20081h 30mStelios Charalampopoulos

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Portugal's Fernando Pessoa and Greece's Constantine Cavafy were two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and the literary giants finally met in 1929 aboard a transatlantic ocean liner carrying immigrants to the U.S. This genre-bending documentary from Greek filmmaker Stelios Charalambopoulos blends truth with fiction in imagining what that meeting must have been like, offering an innovative mix of archival footage and fictional re-enactments of the poets interacting with one of the ship's immigrant passengers.

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What is The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy (2008) about?

Portugal's Fernando Pessoa and Greece's Constantine Cavafy were two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and the literary giants finally met in 1929 aboard a transatlantic ocean liner carrying immigrants to the U.S. This genre-bending documentary from Greek filmmaker Stelios Charalambopoulos blends truth with fiction in imagining what that meeting must have been like, offering an innovative…

Who stars in The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy?

The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy stars Makis Arvanitakis (Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης), Δημήτρης Οικονομίδης (Φερνάντο Πεσσόα), Othon Metaxas (Βασίλης Καπόπουλος), Emilios Tsouvalis (Βασίλης Καπόπουλος). The film was directed by Stelios Charalampopoulos.

How long is The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy?

The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 2008.

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