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Kardec (film)

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Kardec
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWagner de Assis
Written byL.G. Bayão
Wagner de Assis
Screenplay byL.G. Bayão
Wagner de Assis
Based onKardec - A Biografia
by Marcel Souto Maior
Produced byEliana Soárez
StarringChristian Baltauss
Letícia Braga
Sandra Corveloni
CinematographyNonato Estrela
Music byTrevor Gureckis
Production
company
Conspiração Filmes
Distributed bySony Pictures (Brazil)
Netflix (International)
Release date
  • May 16, 2019 (2019-05-16)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Kardec is a 2019 Brazilian drama film directed by Wagner de Assis and written by L.G. Bayão and Wagner de Assis.[1][2][3]

Plot

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Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, a French educator who, when studying the phenomenon of “Spinning tables”, discovers that there is the possibility of communicating with the spirits. As an encoder of the Spiritism doctrine, Professor Rivail assumes the pseudonym of Allan Kardec and elaborates, under the guidance of the spirits, the five main books that guide Spiritist studies.

Cast

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  • Christian Baltauss
  • Letícia Braga as Julie
  • Sandra Corveloni as Amélie
  • Louise D'Tuani as Ermance Dufaux
  • Genésio de Barros as Padre Boutin
  • Charles Fricks as Charles Baudin
  • Julia Konrad as Ruth-Celine
  • Leonardo Medeiros as Rivail / Allan Kardec
  • Henrique Neves as Cáligrafo
  • Guilherme Piva as Didier
  • Júlia Svacinna as Caroline
  • Guida Vianna as Madame Plainemaison
  • Dalton Vigh as Sr. Dufaux

Production

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Filming

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The film had a week of filming in Paris and four weeks on locations in Rio de Janeiro. All the scenes in the French capital had digital intervention for the erasure of modern buildings.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Kardec 2019". Cineshow. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  2. ^ "Crítica: Kardec é filme religioso em defesa do Estado laico". Metropoles. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  3. ^ "Crítica: Filme sobre Allan Kardec atrai apenas os iniciados no espiritismo". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  4. ^ "Filme sobre Allan Kardec estreia em 430 salas com aposta alta no segmento espírita". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
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