Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
- Released
- 1999-10-15
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sérgio Rezende, Joaquim Vaz de Carvalho, Paulo Halm, Sérgio Rezende
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 from 10 votes
Cast
- Paulo Betti as Mauá
- Malu Mader as May
- Othon Bastos as Visconde de Feitosa
- Michael Byrne as Mr. Carruthers
- Antônio Pitanga as Valentim
- Rodrigo Penna as D. Pedro II
- Roberto Bomtempo as Visconde do Rio Branco
- Jorge Neves as Mauá Jovem
- Richard Durden as Barão de Rosthschild
- Murilo Grossi as Ricardo
- Elias Mendonça as Pereira
- Cláudio Corrêa e Castro as Visconde do Uruguai