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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)

Drama History
Release Date: 1999, October 15
Directors: Sérgio Rezende
Countries: Brazil
Cast: Michael Byrne, Richard Durden, Othon Bastos, Miguel Lunardi, Denise Weinberg, Antônio Pitanga, Roberto Bomtempo, Malu Mader, José de Abreu, Hugo Carvana, Murilo Grossi, Paulo Betti

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.