Director(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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