Overview
Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.
Director and cast
- Carla Camurati as Pagu
- Antônio Fagundes as Oswald de Andrade
- Nina de Pádua as Sideria
- Esther Góes as Tarsila do Amaral
- Otávio Augusto as Geraldo Ferraz
- Norma Bengell as Elsie Houston
- Paulo Villaça as Thiers Galvão de França
- Suzana Faíni as Adélia Rehder
- Antônio Pitanga as Herculano
- Eduardo Lago as Olympio Guilherme
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