Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.

Directed by Carlos Augusto Calil, Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars leans on a strong ensemble — Blaise Cendrars, Othon Bastos, Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.

The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about documentary titles of 1972.