Pictures of Ghosts

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Cast

Kleber Mendonça Filho

as Self / Narrator

Rubens Santos

as Driver

Sônia Braga

as Self (archive footage)

Maeve Jinkings

as Self (archive footage)

Lucrecia Martel

as Self

Clara Pinheiro de Oliveira

as Self

Severino Cavalcanti

as Self (archive footage)

Nilo Coelho

as Self - Governador de Pernambuco (archive footage)

Tony Curtis

as Self (archive footage)

Joselice Jucá

as Self (archive footage)

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