Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

Dec 31, 1998

1h 22m

★ 0.0

Overview

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

GNT

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Cast

Self

Pierre Verger

Self - Narrator

Gilberto Gil

Self

Pierre Boucher

Self

Maurice Baquet

Self

Jean Pierre Le Bouler

Self

Cid Teixeira Cavalcante

Self

Jorge Amado

Self

Zélia Gattai

Self

Edson Porto (Popó)

Self

Arlete Soares

Self

Juana Elbein dos Santos

Self

Maria Stella de Azevedo (Mãe Stella)

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

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