Castro Alves

Castro Alves was born on Mar 14, 1847 in Brazil. Castro Alves's big-screen debut came with The Age of the Earth directed by Glauber Rocha in 1980.

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the "Condorism", he won the epithet of "O Poeta dos Escravos" ("The Poet of the Slaves").