Humberto Mauro

Directing

Humberto Mauro

Born — Died

1897-04-30 — 1983-11-05

Place of birth

Volta Grande, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

58 titles

Humberto Duarte Mauro (30 April 1897 – 5 October 1983) was a Brazilian film director. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema. Mauro's second feature film Thesouro Perdido (Lost Treasure) won the Brazilian "Film of the Year" award in 1927. Later that year, Phebo Sul America Film was reorganized into Phebo Brasil Film. The first film released under the new Phebo was Braza Dormida (Sleeping Ember). Braza Dormida was a boxoffice success and furthered Mauro's career as one of Brazil's leading directors. In July 1929, Mauro's final film for Phebo Brasil Film, Sangue Mineiro (Blood of Minas Gerais), was shown in Cataguases. In 1930, the film was given a nationwide …

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

1930s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

O Oxigênio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Oxigênio

1958

Belo Horizonte poster
NR

A panel of the capital of Minas Gerais at the end of the 1950s. Aspects of its modern layout, the result of a pre-established urban plan, with its communication routes, squares and public buildings. Understanding the history of the city and its geographical location. Considerations on teaching, commerce and industry. Pampulha and residential neighborhoods.

Belo Horizonte

1958

Bandeirantes poster
4.0

The epic of the exploration and conquest of the Brazilian territory, in search of gold and precious stones.

Bandeirantes

1940

Cidade Mulher poster
8.0

A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with the sponsorship of a rich man.

Cidade Mulher

1936

Parrot poster
NR

Balanced on a perch, the parrot is encouraged to imitate the sounds of human speech.

Parrot

1937

Um Apólogo poster
5.0

An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.

Um Apólogo

1939

Orchids poster
NR

Short documentary about orchids.

Orchids

1937

O Judas em Sábado de Aleluia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Judas em Sábado de Aleluia

1947

Ruy Barbosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Barbosa

1949

No artwork available
NR

Aspects of the Brazilian composer's life, highlighting musical excerpts from the "Série Brasileira".

Alberto Nepomuceno

1950

Flagrantes da Vida Rural: Fazendas Clássicas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flagrantes da Vida Rural: Fazendas Clássicas

1977

Flagrantes da Vida Rural: Fazendas Clássicas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flagrantes da Vida Rural: Fazendas Clássicas

1977

Castro Alves poster
NR

Biographical data about Castro Alves: the different cities where he lived, the love misadventures, the school institutions where he studied and his poetry. Countryside landscapes illustrate the narrated trajectory. Negra caresses a child in a performance by Castro Alves with her nanny Leopoldina. Men work in pestles, weed. Views of the cities of Cachoeira and Salvador. In the capital, highlights include the Church, Feira de Meninos, the Solar da Boa Vista. Views of the city of Recife. The Recife Faculty of Law. A herm of the poet. The Santa Isabel Theatre. Return to Salvador and the São João Theater.

Castro Alves

1948

Victória Régia poster
6.0

A short documentary about the Victoria Regia.

Victória Régia

1937

Minas Conspiracy poster
8.0

Reconstruction of the historical episode of the Inconfidência Mineira (Minas Conspiracy).

Minas Conspiracy

1948

No artwork available
8.0

A look at the now abandoned production farms, substituted by power plants.

Mills and Factories

1955

O Puraquê poster
5.0

Between captured images, animations and scientific descriptions, the puraquê electric fish is presented through the eyes of Humberto Mauro and Carlos Chagas Filho.

O Puraquê

1939

Captação da Água poster
NR

The need for water in human life.

Captação da Água

1954

A Voz do Carnaval poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Voz do Carnaval

1933

Favela dos Meus Amores poster
NR

Two young men from Paris bring "wonderful civilizing ideas" into the brain. But, as they returned without pity, they began to call for an auction of the furniture and objects of art that garrison their "garconiére", last vestige of the passage of opulence. The great idea would be to install a cabaret in the favela for tourists in search of new sensations and also for the inhabitants of the city. On the hill, one of the boys experiences the greatest surprise: he found there, living among the humble, teaching to read to the children, Rosinha, an enchanted little princess, queen of the hill.

Favela dos Meus Amores

1935

Favela dos Meus Amores poster
NR

Two young men from Paris bring "wonderful civilizing ideas" into the brain. But, as they returned without pity, they began to call for an auction of the furniture and objects of art that garrison their "garconiére", last vestige of the passage of opulence. The great idea would be to install a cabaret in the favela for tourists in search of new sensations and also for the inhabitants of the city. On the hill, one of the boys experiences the greatest surprise: he found there, living among the humble, teaching to read to the children, Rosinha, an enchanted little princess, queen of the hill.

Favela dos Meus Amores

1935

Endemias Rurais poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Endemias Rurais

1960

Rough Gang poster
6.8

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.

Rough Gang

1933

Rough Gang poster
6.8

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.

Rough Gang

1933

Dormant Embers poster
6.9

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 to sabotage the mill.

Dormant Embers

1928

Dormant Embers poster
6.9

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 to sabotage the mill.

Dormant Embers

1928

O Segredo das Asas poster
NR

A FAB officer makes a forced landing on the pasture of a countryside and arrives at a house, where he is greeted by Maria, a paralyzed lace maker. Without a phone so that he could report the accident to the Aeronautics School, the officer decides to tell everything about the School.

O Segredo das Asas

1945

Cidade de Mariana poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cidade de Mariana

1959

Euclydes da Cunha - 1866-1909 poster
NR

Biographical data of Euclides da Cunha.

Euclydes da Cunha - 1866-1909

1944

No artwork available
6.3

A group of bandits look for a treasure map.

National Treasure

1927

No artwork available
6.3

A group of bandits look for a treasure map.

National Treasure

1927

Rural Constructions poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rural Constructions

1956

Academia Brasileira poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Academia Brasileira

1937

No artwork available
NR

A short documentary of macaws

Aráras

1940

Sangue Mineiro poster
7.3

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Belo Horizonte, the industrial Sampaio lives in a manor house with his stepdaughter Carmen, who has a sort of engagement with Roberto...

Sangue Mineiro

1929

Sangue Mineiro poster
7.3

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Belo Horizonte, the industrial Sampaio lives in a manor house with his stepdaughter Carmen, who has a sort of engagement with Roberto...

Sangue Mineiro

1929

O Preparo e Conservação dos Alimentos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Preparo e Conservação dos Alimentos

1955

O Escravo poster
5.0

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

O Escravo

1944

Lagoa Santa poster
NR

The findings of Danish paleontologist Peter Lund. The landscape of the region of Lagoa Santa, the men, the houses and the animals. Some of the caves from where Lund collected the remains of prehistoric animals and humans. Some fossils from the caves of the Lagoa Santa region. The fossils of the Lund room in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

Lagoa Santa

1939

Silo Trincheira poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Silo Trincheira

1955