Synopsis

Tropicalia tells the story of the cultural movement with the same name that roused in the late 60’s in Brazil. Headed by the musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the Tropicalist movement had its apogee in the popular music scene, with intense presence in Brazilian television, press and radio. The Tropicalistas confronted the cultural and political establishment with pop songs, mixing traditional Brazilian folk and the north-hemisphere’s rock. In an affectionate panorama, built up from a miscellany of references, interviews, material dug from archives, images and, of course, songs, the viewer travels through the fertile, controversial and violent years of 1967, 1968 and 1969. ​​

The director

• Marcelo Mashadou
  • Marcelo Mashadou
  • He majored in architecture at Sao Paulo University. He is a documentary on the Brazilian lifestyle (2007) and the story of what I went through while traveling to China directed (2008).​