The Man Who Bottled Clouds

(2008)

★ 8 IMDb · 107 votes

Genres: Music, Documentary

Year: 2008

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: United States of America, Brazil

Director: Lírio Ferreira

Cast: Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Alceu Valença, Elba Ramalho, Belchior, Lenine

Plot

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.