Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção(1975)

movie - first aired/released 1975-12-11 - audience 10.0

Documentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.