Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Director

Sérgio Rezende

Featured Cast

Paulo Betti

Mauá

Malu Mader

May

Othon Bastos

Visconde de Feitosa

Michael Byrne

Mr. Carruthers

Antônio Pitanga

Valentim