Adhemar Gonzaga

Production

Adhemar Gonzaga

Born 1901-08-26 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Adhemar Gonzaga (26 August 1901 – 29 January 1978) was a Brazilian actor, screenwriter, film producer, and director. He worked as a journalist for the film magazine Cinearte (1926–1942) which advocated the creation of a more professional, commercial film industry in Brazil. (Wikipedia)

Acting credits

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

Human Clay poster
8.0

The story evolves around four women. The two lead characters, Vera and Gilda, middle-class women, are poor but ambitious. They face the bourgeois characters, Helena and Diva.

Human Clay

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

Hunger poster
NR

This film is about the humiliating work conditions and exploitation endured by many Latin American actors, filmmakers and writers in Hollywood.

Hunger

1929

Ubirajara poster
NR

Ubirajara, chief of the Araguaias, is engaged to Jandyra. One day, however, he falls in love with Aracy, daughter of Itaquê, chief of the Tocantins and sister of Pojucã, his prisoner. He frees Pojucã so he can declare war on Itaquê and retrieve his daughter. Itaquê is wounded by other enemies and goes blind. The two tribes unite and elect Ubirajara as chief.

Ubirajara

1919

Virgin Lips poster
6.0

Lelita, a rich young lady, is courted by Paulo, her cousin, but she starts to believe that he is also having an affair with her sister.

Virgin Lips

1930

Honor and Jealousy poster
7.0

A Russian refugee comes to Brazil and marries a hard-working, honest man who loves her passionately. Suddenly, her husband inherits a vast fortune, and she finds herself rich, with beautiful jewelry and admirers. Until one day, her husband discovers that she's cheating on him and murders her.

Honor and Jealousy

1933

Hello, Hello, Brazil! poster
9.0

A man is looking for a radio singer named "Dulcineia." For this, he goes through the biggest hassles and problems. The plot, in fact, is an excuse for the exhibition of the musical numbers of the greatest Brazilian Radio artists.

Hello, Hello, Brazil!

1935

Bonequinha de Seda poster
7.0

A poor woman passes herself as singer that just arrives from Frances and becames a sensation on Rio de Janeiro's high society.

Bonequinha de Seda

1936

Adhemar Gonzaga poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Adhemar Gonzaga

1969

Behind the camera

O Cortiço poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

O Cortiço

1945

Alô Alô Carnaval poster
6.1

Two authors go look for a business to finance their dream musical.

Alô Alô Carnaval

1936

Alô Alô Carnaval poster
6.1

Two authors go look for a business to finance their dream musical.

Alô Alô Carnaval

1936

Alô Alô Carnaval poster
6.1

Two authors go look for a business to finance their dream musical.

Alô Alô Carnaval

1936

Pif-Paf poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pif-Paf

1945

Pif-Paf poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pif-Paf

1945

Pif-Paf poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pif-Paf

1945

Obrigado, Doutor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Obrigado, Doutor

1948

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

Human Clay poster
8.0

The story evolves around four women. The two lead characters, Vera and Gilda, middle-class women, are poor but ambitious. They face the bourgeois characters, Helena and Diva.

Human Clay

1929

Human Clay poster
8.0

The story evolves around four women. The two lead characters, Vera and Gilda, middle-class women, are poor but ambitious. They face the bourgeois characters, Helena and Diva.

Human Clay

1929

The Drunkard poster
5.2

A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard.

The Drunkard

1946

Romance Proibido poster
9.8

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Romance Proibido

1944

Romance Proibido poster
9.8

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Romance Proibido

1944

Romance Proibido poster
9.8

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Romance Proibido

1944

Pureza poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pureza

1940

Woman poster
9.0

Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for her boyfriend, Milton. After being expelled from home, she finds out her lover is married. Unhappy with her life, she finds a place in a boarding house and tries to find a job, with no success. Tired and starving, she ends up passing out in the street, being helped by a passer-by, who leaves her at writer Flávio Martins's house, a man torn between the proposal of an arranged marriage, an old flame, and the new guest.

Woman

1931

Woman poster
9.0

Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for her boyfriend, Milton. After being expelled from home, she finds out her lover is married. Unhappy with her life, she finds a place in a boarding house and tries to find a job, with no success. Tired and starving, she ends up passing out in the street, being helped by a passer-by, who leaves her at writer Flávio Martins's house, a man torn between the proposal of an arranged marriage, an old flame, and the new guest.

Woman

1931

Aruanã poster
8.0

A german adventurer leads an expedition to the Serra dos Martírios, in search of gold.

Aruanã

1938

A Voz do Carnaval poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Voz do Carnaval

1933

O Dia é Nosso poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Dia é Nosso

1941

Berlim na Batucada poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Berlim na Batucada

1944

Berlim na Batucada poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Berlim na Batucada

1944

Virgin Lips poster
6.0

Lelita, a rich young lady, is courted by Paulo, her cousin, but she starts to believe that he is also having an affair with her sister.

Virgin Lips

1930