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Filmmaker · Brazil

Humberto Mauro

Died in 1983

Humberto Mauro was born in 1897 in Volta Grande, in Minas Gerais. A figure of the Cataguases film cycle, he shot his first silent feature films there in the mid-1920s. Called to Rio by Adhemar Gonzaga, he directed in 1930 the first of his films for the Cinédia studio. In 1936 he joined the National Institute of Educational Cinema, where he stayed about thirty years and made hundreds of documentaries. He died in 1983, in his native town.

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