Esse Mundo é Meu with That Man of Mine

Esse Mundo é Meu with That Man of Mine

Esse Mundo é Meu 
Esse Mundo é Meu finds poetry in the everyday through multilayered imagery of two parallel romantic stories and the distinctive sounds of director Sérgio Ricardo’s music. A Black laborer, Toshino, hopes to save up enough money to win the woman he loves after a family misfortune leaves him penniless. The film celebrates love and all it can offer.  

That Man of Mine 
Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases tenderness in romance and community through a series of musical numbers. The loosely connected plot follows film producers hoping to cast a stand-out actress for their next film.  

Esse Mundo é Meu
DIRECTED BY: Sérgio Ricardo. WRITTEN BY: Sérgio Ricardo. WITH: Antonio Pitanga, Léa Bulcão, Sérgio Ricardo, Luiza Aparecida. 1964. 79 min. Brazil. B&W. Portuguese. Digital. 

That Man of Mine 
DIRECTED BY: Leonard Anderson. WRITTEN BY: Les Hafner. WITH: Betty Haynes, Ruby Dee, Powell Lindsay, Rhina Harris. 1946. 56 min. USA. B&W. English. Digital. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive and the Library of Congress, with funding from the Women’s Film Preservation fund, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and the Monterey Pop Festival Foundation.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

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