Movie

The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy

2008 1h 30m Released

History

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.

Cast

Makis Arvanitakis Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης Δ Δημήτρης Οικονομίδης Φερνάντο Πεσσόα Othon Metaxas Βασίλης Καπόπουλος E Emilios Tsouvalis Βασίλης Καπόπουλος