Uma Noite em 67 plot
"A documentary which shows the greatness in the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira of 1967."
Anyone who thinks that television programs in which the public and juries judge musical acts are a contemporary phenomenon is wrong. In the sixties, the so-called festivals in Brazil were very popular. The festivals were recorded in front of a live audience, and had several elimination rounds. The careers of many big names started there, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos and Gilberto Gil. Performing was not a piece of cake: the audience was delirious, both in its appreciation and distaste for an artist. This is what Sérgio Ricardo experienced, for example, who tries to silence a booing audience in one of the many long archive fragments in the film and, in an ultimate manifestation of frustration, hurls his guitar into the room. An action that led to disqualification. The film shows archive footage - not only of performances, but also interviews with the singers and musicians behind the scenes - of a turbulent final round of the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music one evening in 1967.
