Over seven thousand have already been bewitched

Over seven thousand people didn’t want to miss the soul of a people. These were the words of Luis Miguel Jardim, yesterday (Thursday, April 13^th 2017) just before the start of another session of “O Feiticeiro da Calheta” (The Calheta Wizzard”, which again filled the Centro de Congressos da Madeira.

On a special event, with many in the cast present, one could feel, within the room, the soul of a people that, in mid twentieth century, resisted the devastation of hunger and disease, and had to find new path to go through its days, far from their families.

The producer of the film, which has become a true success, and even allows us to forget the island’s former presence (just a single scene), called part of the cast to the stage, like João Augusto Abreu, actor, but also responsible for the disturbing soundtrack. And, since we are talking about a movie, the images shown of Calheta landscapes are fabulous.

Madeira was all there: the typical gossiping, the land management system (colonia), the respectable women and the others, the men that worked to feed their children, the famine, the exploitation, the misery, adultery and the dreaming.

We believe that seven thousand more can see the film that shows – as Luis Miguel Jardim put it – the soul of a people. Not to be missed, on April 23^rd, at the Centro Cultural John dos Passos, in Ponta do Sol.

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