The haunting music score is another plus in this film. For those like me that do not know the biography of Chico Xavier, I would like to highlight the following information: Chico Xavier's spiritual guide was Emmanuel. He wrote books; sold 40 million units in 33 languages, including 30 books in Braille.
However, Chico Xavier has denied the authorship of the books and has never received any copyright for any book. All the revenue with the selling has been donated to beneficent institutions. Another interesting point is that Chico Xavier has always said that he would die when the Brazilian people would be happy.
He died on 30 June , with 92 years old and ten hours after the Brazilian soccer team wins the World Cup for the fifth time. Last but not the least; this film is better and better than "Lula, O Filho do Brasil" that was selected to dispute the nomination to the Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category.
My vote is nine. Title Brazil : "Chico Xavier". Details Edit. Release date April 2, Brazil. Official site. Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Globo Filmes Lereby Productions. Box office Edit. Laura Premack. Photo: capitu. In Brazil, dead people write books.
Not only do they write books, they sell them. Many fly off the shelves. Sometimes mediums channel the spirits of famous writers and poets such as Victor Hugo and Humberto de Campos, the renowned Brazilian poet and journalist whose family sued the medium-author of several collections of his supposedly posthumous poems and essays—not because they objected on principle but because they wanted a share of the profits.
Sometimes mediums channel historical figures, such as nineteenth-century politician Bezerra de Menezes, and sometimes they channel unknowns. Known fondly as Chico Xavier, he published more than books from until his death at age ninety-two in At least 25 million copies of his books have been sold, likely more. They have been translated into many languages, including Greek, Japanese, and Braille. His Nosso Lar , a sort of spiritual memoir first published in , is probably the biggest psychographic hit ever.
More than sixty Brazilian editions have been printed and nearly 2 million copies sold. In addition to publishing books, Xavier used his psychographic ability to record more than ten thousand letters from dead people to their families.
Most often it was grieving mothers who traveled from all over Brazil to visit Xavier in the city of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, hoping he would channel messages from their children. In these letters the disincarnate spirits typically assured loved ones that there was no need to worry, that they were safe and happy, and that they still loved their families very much.
Sometimes the writing was backwards, and sometimes it was in a language Xavier did not speak. The judge admitted the psychographed letter as evidence and moved to acquit Divino. A jury agreed, six votes to one. By the time of the Divino trial, Xavier was famous throughout Brazil. It was the largest television audience in Brazilian history. Rather than the planned hour, the broadcast lasted nearly three.
The audience response was so extraordinary that Xavier was invited to do a follow-up interview later that year. It lasted four hours and was watched by an estimated 20 million people. Of course, not all Brazilians who watched were convinced that Xavier could communicate with spirits, but few were willing to disregard him entirely.
Over the years, he came to be widely respected for his humility and generosity. He donated all of the proceeds from his books to charity and charged nothing for the letters. More than two million people signed a petition nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize in In two and a half million voted to elect him the Mineiro a person from Minas Gerais of the century.
When Xavier died in , three thousand people passed by his coffin each hour of his two-day wake, after waiting in a line that stretched for two and a half miles. More than 30, fans and onlookers accompanied the funeral procession on foot.
At the cemetery, a police helicopter dropped rose petals on the casket. The governor of Minas Gerais announced three official days of mourning. This was not hyperbole.
In , when a national magazine polled its readers to select the greatest Brazilian in history, Xavier won handily with 36 percent of the vote, nearly twice that received by the runner-up, racecar driver Ayrton Senna. In , he won a similar television competition, with 71 percent of voters agreeing he was the greatest Brazilian of all time.
It showed his torso clothed in a light suit, head topped with trademark shiny toupee, eyes behind dark sunglasses. He was posed in his iconic spirit-channeling position: head resting in left hand, pencil grasped in right, forehead furrowed in concentration, and eyes closed. Xavier was not some fringe kook. He was and remains a central and beloved figure, one of the most important in Brazilian cultural history. That such a man could be taken seriously—revered, even—reflects fundamental conditions of Brazilian spirituality.
The popularity of Spiritism in Brazil, where it is far more than an idle fascination, forces us to reconsider what religion can be.
Even though barely educated, he published more than books - the spirits of dead people dictated the texts to him telepathically. Poetry From Beyond The Grave , for example, contained poems revealed to Xavier by 56 dead Brazilian poets, including some famous ones. Several people tried to prove he was a fraud, but no one succeeded. The widow of one of the poets even tried to sue him for royalties, but the court ruled in Xavier's favour, judging that "the [poet] is dead, and the dead have no rights.
The final word on the matter was given by the highbrow newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo. It observed that if the poems were not actually written by the dead poets, then, at the very least, Xavier should be sitting in the Brazilian academy of letters.
Even though the content of most of his other books was religious, Xavier also transcribed from the spirit world novels and works of philosophy and science. His books sold an estimated 25 million copies, the profits of which were all channelled into charity work. As a fingerprint expert with the Brazilian agriculture ministry, Xavier lived on meagre wages before drawing his state pension. He has been retired since His first Spiritist meeting was in May Two months later he started to exercise his mediumship publicly, at the age of In he saw his mentor Emmanuel for the first time.
In those early days, Emmanuel asked Chico if he was really willing to work on mediumship with Jesus. He said he was, if the Good Spirits stayed with him. Emmanuel said he would not be forsaken, but added that he needed to work, study and make efforts for goodness.
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