The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy (2008)

Also known as “Ti nyhta pou o Fernando Pessoa synantise ton Konstadino Kavafi“. Director: Stelios Haralambopoulos Writer: Stelios Haralambopoulos Stars: Minas Hatzisavvas, Luís Lima Barreto, Othonas Metaxas. Language: Greek with English subs Portugal’s Fernando Pessoa and Greece’s Constantine Cavafy were two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and the literary giants finally met in 1929 aboard a transatlantic ocean liner carrying immigrants to the U.S. This genre-bending documentary from Greek filmmaker Stelios Charalambopoulos blends truth with fiction in imagining what that meeting must have been like, offering an innovative mix of archival footage and fictional re-enactments of the poets interacting with one of the ship’s immigrant passangers.