Movies: Humberto Mauro

Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he ...

A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he becomes part of a love triangle....

A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly d...

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil....

Lelita, a rich young lady, is courted by Paulo, her cousin, but she has reason to believe he is also having na affair with Lelita's sister, which causes jealousy trouble, until all becomes clear and true love prevails....

A young man from Rio who, down on his luck in the capital, takes a job as manager of a sugar mill in the country, where he finds love with the mill owner’s daughter. The former manager, who had been demoted for incompetence, becomes jealous and tries...

When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done....

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In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He is hired by the millionaire widow Luciana (Carmem Santos) to perform a restoration in her castle in Correas, a dist...

O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Discovery of Brazil) is an impressive historical epic recreating Álvares Cabral’s voyage to the New World in 1500, with a score especially written by the renowned composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. One of the earliest exampl...

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last....

Historical information about the opera "O escravo", by Carlos Gomes, highlighting the fourth act, in which Iberê sings Iara's love....

Coronel Januário's goddaughter, Maria Fausta, is having a secret affair with João do Carmo. While her godfather is engaged in his political campaign for mayor of the city, the couple disappears. Galdino, an accordionist who is secretly in love with h...

A group of bandits look for a treasure map....

The film demonstrates all stages of production of the yellow fever vaccine that took place in the Yellow Fever Service laboratory of the Rockefeller Foundation, located in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute....

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At the Rockefeller Foundation, the rat colony for experiments with viruses and antibodies in humans. In Ilha dos Macacos, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, the creation of Rhesus monkey by the Rockefeller Foundation - a primate s...

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an important role....

Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica of Senhor Bom Jesus de Matozinho, the six chapels on the terrace leading to Morro do Maranhão. Each chapel contains statues representing moments of the...

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