Eternamente Pagu (1987)

Eternamente Pagu (1987)

Release Date: 1987, May 12
Directors: Norma Bengell
Countries: Brazil
Production: Embrafilme, Embrafilme, Flai Cinematográfica, Flai Cinematográfica, Skylight Cinema Foto Art, Skylight Cinema Foto Art, Maksoud Plaza, Maksoud Plaza
Cast: Otávio Augusto, Antônio Pitanga, Antônio Fagundes, Carla Camurati, Esther Góes, Eduardo Lago, Breno Moroni, Nina de Pádua, Norma Bengell, Beth Goulart, Carlos Gregório, Paulo Villaça

Overview:

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.