Pictures of Ghosts

Pictures of Ghosts

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2023•1h 33m•8.1/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.1/10(57)

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.

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Production

Vitrine Filmes, CinemaScópio

Language

PT

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Self / Narrator

Rubens Santos

Rubens Santos

Driver

Sônia Braga

Sônia Braga

Self (archive footage)

Maeve Jinkings

Maeve Jinkings

Self (archive footage)

Lucrecia Martel

Lucrecia Martel

Self

Clara Pinheiro de Oliveira

Self

Severino Cavalcanti

Self (archive footage)

Nilo Coelho

Self - Governador de Pernambuco (archive footage)

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Self (archive footage)

Joselice Jucá

Self (archive footage)

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

Self (archive footage)

Alexandre Moura

Self (archive footage)

Matheus Nachtergaele

Matheus Nachtergaele

Self (archive footage)

Ariano Suassuna

Ariano Suassuna

Self (archive footage)

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