{"title":"Marcel Souto Maior","description":"\"\u003cp\u003eWagner de Assis é diretor e roteirista, com 25 anos de experiência no cinema e na televisão. Entre seus maiores sucessos, está o longa-metragem \u003cem\u003eNosso Lar\u003c\/em\u003e, baseado na obra de Chico Xavier, que levou mais de 4 milhões de espectadores aos cinemas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarcel Souto Maior é jornalista e roteirista da TV Globo, autor de dez livros, entre eles os best-sellers \u003cem\u003eAs vidas de Chico Xavier\u003c\/em\u003e, que deu origem ao filme de Daniel Filho, e \u003cem\u003eKardec: a biografia\u003c\/em\u003e, transformado em filme por Wagner de Assis.\u003c\/p\u003e\"","products":[{"product_id":"kardec","title":"Kardec","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e Behind-the-scenes stories from the film about Allan Kardec that premiered in theaters in May 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 2019, on the occasion of Allan Kardec's 150th birthday, screenwriter and director Wagner de Assis teamed up with journalist and screenwriter Marcel Souto Maior to adapt the biography of one of Spiritism's greatest icons for the screen. Produced by Conspiração and distributed by Sony Pictures, the feature film \u003cem\u003e\"Kardec: The Movie\"\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. In the book \u003cem\u003e\"Kardec: The Story Behind the Movie\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" readers are invited to take a behind-the-scenes look at the filming process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAt 53, the skeptical professor, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, decided to change his life and name to give voice to spirits and reveal the hidden depths of the invisible world. For his work, he became known as the codifier and foremost promoter of the Spiritist doctrine. But what made Professor Rivail become Allan Kardec? What led him to believe in the presence and influence of spirits? What adversaries did he face to spread the doctrine proclaimed in \u003cem\u003eThe Spirits' Book\u003c\/em\u003e ? The answers were brought to the big screen, in a time travel to 19th-century France, portraying a life of struggle and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBy the candlelight and street lamps of a Paris in turmoil—an atmosphere accurately reproduced in the historical biopic \u003cem\u003e\"Kardec\u003c\/em\u003e \"—director Wagner de Assis and his crew experienced surprising, moving, and also amusing episodes. These events are recounted in the first part of \u003cem\u003e\"Kardec: The Story Behind the Film\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" in chronicles written during the day-to-day filming, still under the impact of unexpected circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The book also features previously unpublished texts by journalist Marcel Souto Maior—author of the biography that inspired the film—about the process of gradually uncovering this historical figure. Finally, in the previously unpublished interview in the third part of the book, Marcel Souto Maior and Wagner de Assis discuss their approach to issues such as spirituality, writing, and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eEnriched with photographic records of the experiences and emotions experienced on set, \u003cem\u003eKardec: The Story Behind the Film\u003c\/em\u003e records the challenge of reconstructing and bringing to the big screen the trajectory of one of the fathers of Spiritism.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159830413564,"sku":"9788501117120","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9805d74214bb2d1a68566a48d5e04f8d_a49e1ae9-e2a8-4d8d-b033-d8638d56cc8e.jpg?v=1778324962"},{"product_id":"kardec-a-biografia","title":"Kardec: The Biography","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eKardec: The Biography\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, a skeptical teacher and author of pedagogical books in 19th-century France, whose life was transformed when he saw tables spinning in the air and dictating, to the sound of knocks, messages whose authorship was attributed to illustrious or anonymous dead people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eRivail had a scientific theory to explain these episodes: it was the magnetic force of the séance participants, not ghosts, that fueled the tables. Other possible explanations were much simpler: fraud, collective hypnosis, autosuggestion. However, by using his Cartesian methods to investigate such events, witnessed by multitudes in Europe and the United States and revered by celebrities such as the writer Victor Hugo, he not only became convinced of the existence of occult forces but also changed his life and name to give voice to the spirits. At 53, after putting the invisible to the test, he became Allan Kardec, an increasingly well-known, admired, and persecuted figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this \u003cem\u003ebook Kardec: a biography\u003c\/em\u003e , Marcel Souto Maior, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Chico Xavier\u003c\/em\u003e , goes into the field in search of the details of the events that transformed the skeptic into the leader of a doctrine, making him believe that the dead communicated through mediums and face fierce opponents from the Church and the press to bring his faith in the survival of the spirit to the greatest number of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The result of this research is this surprising portrait of the man who became a symbol of a doctrine for millions of followers and helped transform Brazil into the largest Spiritist country in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 2019, in celebration of Allan Kardec's 150th birthday, \u003cem\u003eKardec\u003c\/em\u003e was adapted for the cinema by director Wagner de Assis, produced by Conspiração and distributed by Sony Pictures, with Leonardo Medeiros in the role of Allan Kardec.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175458783484,"sku":"9788501100672","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4009268ee06074817cb6a4b9be31a832_fc977f94-ffb8-4d38-961a-2a82436c7857.jpg?v=1778320178"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/marcel-souto-maior.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}