The story
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
Paulo BettiMauá
Malu MaderMay
Othon BastosVisconde de Feitosa
Michael ByrneMr. Carruthers
Antônio PitangaValentimRodrigo Penna
Rodrigo PennaD. Pedro II
Roberto BomtempoVisconde do Rio BrancoJorge Neves
Jorge NevesMauá Jovem
Richard DurdenBarão de Rosthschild
Murilo GrossiRicardoElias Mendonça
Elias MendonçaPereira
Cláudio Corrêa e CastroVisconde do UruguaiExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Antonio Luiz Mendes
- Producer
- Joaquim Vaz de Carvalho
- Screenplay
- Paulo Halm
- Editor
- Isabelle Rathery
- Screenplay
- Joaquim Vaz de Carvalho
- Screenplay
- Sérgio Rezende
- Director
- Sérgio Rezende