The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy

The read

It runs a compact 1h 30m.

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Stelios CharalampopoulosDirector

Cast

• Makis ArvanitakisΚωνσταντίνος Καβάφης
• Δημήτρης ΟικονομίδηςΦερνάντο Πεσσόα
• Othon MetaxasΒασίλης Καπόπουλος
• Emilios TsouvalisΒασίλης Καπόπουλος