Bezerra de Menezes

2769get-it-now117Director(s): Glauber Filho, Joe Pimentel

Writer(s): Glauber Filho, Luciano Klein, Andréa Bardawil

Actor(s): Carlos Vereza, Magno Carvalho, Lúcio Mauro

Production Co.:  Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: Brazil

Year: 2008

Language: Dialogue in Portuguese with optional English, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles

Format: DVD

Summary: At eighteen, Menezes, a protagonist studies medicine in Rio de Janeiro. There he was elected councilman and a member to various legislatures and also defended abolitionist ideas. But what brought him recognition was the anonymous work he did on behalf of the disadvantaged. Because of this work, he was known as the “Doctor of the Poor.”

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