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Eternamente Pagu

Eternamente Pagu

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 12, 1987

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

62%

Original Title

Eternamente Pagu

Production Companies

Embrafilme, Flai Cinematográfica, Skylight Cinema Foto Art, Maksoud Plaza

Director

Norma Bengell

Description

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.