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The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy

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.

Top Cast

  • Makis Arvanitakis

    Makis Arvanitakis

    Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης

  • Δημήτρης Οικονομίδης

    Δημήτρης Οικονομίδης

    Φερνάντο Πεσσόα

  • Othon Metaxas

    Othon Metaxas

    Βασίλης Καπόπουλος

  • Emilios Tsouvalis

    Emilios Tsouvalis

    Βασίλης Καπόπουλος

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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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