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How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal

Como Fernando Pessoa Salvou Portugal

2018 · 0h 27m · Comedy · Belgium, France

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.

Written & directed by
Eugène Green
Starring
Carloto Cotta, Manuel Mozos, Diogo Dória, Alexandre Pieroni Calado
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1920sadvertising campaigncontroversial advertisingheteronym in literaturelisboa, portugalportrait of an artistshort film

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