The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 14, 2008

Original language

Greek

Spoken languages

Greek

Cast

Othon Metaxas,Emilios Tsouvalis,Makis Arvanitakis,Δημήτρης Οικονομίδης

Director

Stelios Haralambopoulos

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

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