
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
Directed by Lírio Ferreira, Iafa Britz
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Released
July 28, 2008
1h 50m
English, Portuguese

Caetano Veloso
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Maria Bethânia
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Gal Costa
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Chico Buarque
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David Byrne
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Gilberto Gil
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Alceu Valença
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Elba Ramalho
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Belchior
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Lenine
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Ilka Soares
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Bebel Gilberto
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Sivuca
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Zeca Pagodinho
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Otto
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Fagner
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Dalva de Oliveira
(archive footage)

Anselmo Duarte
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Daniel Filho
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Assis Vaqueiro
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