Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

Name: Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Director: Sérgio Rezende
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1999-10-15
Duration: 2 h 12 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Paulo Betti, Malu Mader, Othon Bastos, Michael Byrne, Antônio Pitanga

1999

2h 12m

History Drama

Director: Sérgio Rezende

Writers: Sérgio Rezende, Joaquim Vaz de Carvalho

Overview

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.