The Man Who Bottled Clouds

Name: The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Director: Lírio Ferreira
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 2008-07-28
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Cast: Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque, David Byrne

2008

1h 50m

Music Documentary

Director: Lírio Ferreira

Writer: Lírio Ferreira

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Overview

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.