Corações em Suplício
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Corações em Suplício is a 1926
Brazil
ian drama film
directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
and produced by Masotti Film (locally also nicked Estúdios Masotti and Irmãos Masotti) in Guaranésia
, MG
in 1925, the town where it was run.
The title Corações em Suplício translates as Tormented Hearts or Hearts under Emotional Torture .
, nowadays Lonato del Garda in the Province of Brescia
(Lombardy
), at the shores of Lake Garda
in Italy
, to the baker
Felipe Masotti and Armida Samaelle Masotti. In 1897 the Masotti family left Italy, emigrating to Brazil, where they fixed their first residence at Rua Rio de Janeiro in Belo Horizonte
, MG
. And it was here Carlos' brother Américo would be given birth August 14th, 1901.
Their father Felipe Masotti had established a bakery in Belo Horizonte
and Carlos' first job was helping his father in the bakery as a deliverer. In 1902, when 15 years old, Carlos gets to a job at the press. Excited about his job, he soon shows his talent as a handicraftsman by building a wooden printing machine which he uses to publish Belo Horizonte
's first newspaper ever in a foreign language, Un Fiore.
In 1908 Carlos has his own printing shop where he works together with his brother Américo and marries Maria Tortoro with whom he'll have seven children.
as photographers - art they had learned from Igino Bonfioli in Belo Horizonte
, MG
- and handicraft workers in 1923. On a trip to São Paulo
, SP
, they purchase a Debrie camera and, supported by local farmers, run a documentary intitled Guaranésia Pitoresca (Picturesque Guaranésia), filmed by Carlos and photographed by Américo Masotti. Despite no commercial exhibition is done, the documentary's success is enough for the brothers to build - with the support of Fernando Máximo, manager of the local bank Banco Campos, Lima & Cia. - their own film studios and a laboratory for the developing and copying of movies and to found their own movie production company, Masotti Film.
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
In 1925, a man who claims to be an American movie director appears in Guaranésia
: he informs his name as Eugene Kerrigan and says he was born in Los Angeles
, CA
, in 1878. About his heavy Italian accent, he explains he descends from an Italian noble family and that his complete name is Count Eugenio Maria Piglione Rossiglioni de Farnet. As a matter of a fact, he's on the run.
When working at APA Film in Campinas
, SP
, shortly after finishing Sofrer para Gozar
(= To Suffer in order to Enjoy) and while preparing his next one, A Carne
, he had been introduced to an actual American and it came out Kerrigan
did not know one only word of English or Spanish. He had to get away from Campinas
and APA Film's owner Felipe Ricci takes over himself the part of A Carne
's director.
First Kerrigan moves to São Paulo
, SP
, where he had been invited by Visual Film's owner Adalberto de Almada Fagundes to direct the comedy Quando Elas Querem
(= When the Women Want). In the beginning of 1925, Quando Elas Querem
premiers, Visual Film breaks down and Kerrigan decides it's a good idea to move once more. His new target: Guaranésia
, MG
.
Kerrigan
was actually born in 1878, but in Modena
or Genova
, Italy
, and his name was Eugenio Centennaro.
Corações em Suplício
In Guaranésia
, Kerrigan visits the Masotti brothers and proposes them his project of a feature film. They accept and Corações em Suplício
is run.
Roteiro, argumento e direção ficam a cargo de Kerrigan, a produção corre por conta de Carlos Masotti, auxiliado pela mulher, encarregando-se Américo Masotti da fotografia.
Screenplay, argument and direction are Kerrigan's job, Carlos Masotti, aided by his wife, is in charge of production Americo Masotti does the photography.
Financing is done by the local Banco Campos, Lima & Cia. bank's manager Fernando Máximo.
In Guaranésia
there was a major difficulty to find persons willing to act in a movie. Like generally in Minas Gerais
at that time, cinema people were often seen as immoral. So good part of the actors and actresses had to be brought from São Paulo
. But yet the makers of the movie and the two daughters of Carlos Masotti would have to join the cast.
The cast for the main roles was composed by José Rodrigues
, an experienced actor who had already performed under Kerrigan's direction at APA Film and Lilian Loty, until then a theater actress in São Paulo
, for the respective main roles. Another important male role was performed by William Gautier. For Waldemar Rodrigues, that one's the pseudonym Kerrigan himself joins the cast with. And two daughters of Carlos Masotti's, Míriam (pseudonym: Miriam Clermont) and Lídia (pseudonym: Lídia Clermont) play minor female roles .
Corações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício
is one of those dramas where in the end the hero saves the young lady at the last moment. During the adventures, the hero takes a blow on his head, goes crazy but is finally healed by a famous alienist. Madnesses and amnesias finally healed through competent professional intervention are a recurrent issue in Mineiro
movies from those years. Two examples stated are Pedro Comello's Os Três Irmãos (= The Three Brothers; Cataguases
, 1925) and José Silva
's Perante Deus (= Before God; Belo Horizonte
, 1930).
The film premiered at Teatro Rio Branco in Guaranésia
Thursday, January 7th, 1926, at 7:30 pm. Few days later - before January 13th - it officially premiered at Cine Rialto in Rio de Janeiro
, RJ
.
No surviving copy is known of this movie is known despite one has been informed to exist, but not yet located. What remains of of Masotti brothers' work are the saints in Guaranésia
's Matriz Church they fixed soon after their arrival in 1923.
Corações em Suplício
Cinema magazine Selecta
's critics consider the movie good but focus on Kerrigan with restrictions, what might be due to the high debts he assumed during the making of Corações em Suplício
. Américo Masotti's photography is highly praised and the film is recommended to be watched. In its issue from January 13th, 1926, it says: "E. C. Kerrigan is not yet a practical director, nor does he seem to be the same for the whole movie". But Selecta
's critics state: "It's not yet a perfect work, but it's always better than many foreign movies, including North-American ones, we have watched". After Rio de Janeiro, the movie premiers in several Brazilian
cities and abroad, including in the USA and France
.
Corações em Suplício
The production of Corações em Suplício
had cost more than any commercial success could return, specially since Kerrigan
had been extremely generous in taking bank loans - it's said that specially for himself - accounted for Masotti Film.
Banco Campos, Lima & Cia. ends going bankrupt.
Carlos Masotti and Américo Masotti transfer themselves and their Masotti Film to Belo Horizonte
where they still produce some documentaries, but they never recover financially and go into bankruptcy either. Carlos Masotti dies shortly after, December 10, 1927.
Kerrigan
leaves Guaranésia
and moves to Porto Alegre
, RS
where in 1928 he runs Amor que Redime for Ita Film, a movie for which photography he calls his former sponsor Thomaz de Tullio from Campinas
, SP. One year later, in 1929, he directs his last movie, Revelação for Porto Alegre
's Unifilmes studios.
When years later it came out that Kerrigan
actually was an Italian immigrant called Eugenio Centenaro, his old friend Arturo Carrari
- who had accompanied Kerrigan
's inventions and feats - proposed him to produce a biographic movie of his life, with Kerrigan
himself in the role of the fake count, but that project never became real. Kerrigan
died in Porto Alegre
December 25, 1956.
1926 in film
-Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
and produced by Masotti Film (locally also nicked Estúdios Masotti and Irmãos Masotti) in Guaranésia
Guaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
, MG
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
in 1925, the town where it was run.
The title Corações em Suplício translates as Tormented Hearts or Hearts under Emotional Torture .
The Masotti Brothers
Carlos Masotti was born May 28, 1887, in LonatoLonato
Lonato del Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. Lonato is located in the middle of northern Italy, about half way between Milan and Venice, on the south-west shore of Lake Garda, the biggest lake in Italy.The commune is bordered by those of near Castiglione...
, nowadays Lonato del Garda in the Province of Brescia
Province of Brescia
The Province of Brescia is a Province in Lombardy, Italy. It borders with the province of Sondrio in the N and NW, the province of Bergamo in the W, province of Cremona in the SW and S, the province of Mantova to the S, and to the east, the province of Verona and Trentino .Source for statistical...
(Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
), at the shores of Lake Garda
Lake Garda
Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy. It is located in Northern Italy, about half-way between Brescia and Verona, and between Venice and Milan. Glaciers formed this alpine region at the end of the last ice age...
in Italy
Italy
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, to the baker
Baker
A baker is someone who bakes and sells bread, Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades...
Felipe Masotti and Armida Samaelle Masotti. In 1897 the Masotti family left Italy, emigrating to Brazil, where they fixed their first residence at Rua Rio de Janeiro in Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, MG
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
. And it was here Carlos' brother Américo would be given birth August 14th, 1901.
Their father Felipe Masotti had established a bakery in Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
and Carlos' first job was helping his father in the bakery as a deliverer. In 1902, when 15 years old, Carlos gets to a job at the press. Excited about his job, he soon shows his talent as a handicraftsman by building a wooden printing machine which he uses to publish Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
's first newspaper ever in a foreign language, Un Fiore.
In 1908 Carlos has his own printing shop where he works together with his brother Américo and marries Maria Tortoro with whom he'll have seven children.
Masotti Film
The brothers Carlos and Américo Masotti install themselves in GuaranésiaGuaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
as photographers - art they had learned from Igino Bonfioli in Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, MG
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
- and handicraft workers in 1923. On a trip to São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, SP
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
, they purchase a Debrie camera and, supported by local farmers, run a documentary intitled Guaranésia Pitoresca (Picturesque Guaranésia), filmed by Carlos and photographed by Américo Masotti. Despite no commercial exhibition is done, the documentary's success is enough for the brothers to build - with the support of Fernando Máximo, manager of the local bank Banco Campos, Lima & Cia. - their own film studios and a laboratory for the developing and copying of movies and to found their own movie production company, Masotti Film.
Eugenio Centenaro KerriganEugenio Centenaro KerriganWilliam Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
In 1925, a man who claims to be an American movie director appears in GuaranésiaGuaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
: he informs his name as Eugene Kerrigan and says he was born in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, in 1878. About his heavy Italian accent, he explains he descends from an Italian noble family and that his complete name is Count Eugenio Maria Piglione Rossiglioni de Farnet. As a matter of a fact, he's on the run.
When working at APA Film in Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, SP
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
, shortly after finishing Sofrer para Gozar
Sofrer Para Gozar
Sofrer Para Gozar is a 1923 Brazilian silent drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan.The film premiered in Rio de Janeiro on December 27, 1923.-Cast:*Cacilda Alencar as Edith Barros*Juracy Aymoré*João dos Santos Galvão...
(= To Suffer in order to Enjoy) and while preparing his next one, A Carne
A Carne
A Carne is a 1888 Naturalist novel by Júlio Ribeiro. It is one of the most polemical works of the Brazilian literature.-Plot:Lenita is a young, unexperient 22-year-old woman who, recently orphaned, goes to live with an old farmer, who raised her father. In the farmer's house, she meets his son,...
, he had been introduced to an actual American and it came out Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
did not know one only word of English or Spanish. He had to get away from Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
and APA Film's owner Felipe Ricci takes over himself the part of A Carne
A Carne
A Carne is a 1888 Naturalist novel by Júlio Ribeiro. It is one of the most polemical works of the Brazilian literature.-Plot:Lenita is a young, unexperient 22-year-old woman who, recently orphaned, goes to live with an old farmer, who raised her father. In the farmer's house, she meets his son,...
's director.
First Kerrigan moves to São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, SP
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
, where he had been invited by Visual Film's owner Adalberto de Almada Fagundes to direct the comedy Quando Elas Querem
Quando Elas Querem
Quando Elas Querem is a 1925 Brazilian comedy film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan.The film premiered in Rio de Janeiro on December 9, 1925.-Cast:*Bertoli Carmelo as Alberto*Luiz de Barros*César Fronzi*Yolanda Fronzi*Regina Fuína...
(= When the Women Want). In the beginning of 1925, Quando Elas Querem
Quando Elas Querem
Quando Elas Querem is a 1925 Brazilian comedy film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan.The film premiered in Rio de Janeiro on December 9, 1925.-Cast:*Bertoli Carmelo as Alberto*Luiz de Barros*César Fronzi*Yolanda Fronzi*Regina Fuína...
premiers, Visual Film breaks down and Kerrigan decides it's a good idea to move once more. His new target: Guaranésia
Guaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
, MG
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
.
Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
was actually born in 1878, but in Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
or Genova
Génova
Génova may refer to:* Spanish spelling of the city of Genoa, Italy* Génova, Quindío, a municipality in the department of Quindío, Colombia* Génova, Quetzaltenango, a municipality in the department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, and his name was Eugenio Centennaro.
Corações em SuplícioCorações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
- The Making of
In GuaranésiaGuaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
, Kerrigan visits the Masotti brothers and proposes them his project of a feature film. They accept and Corações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
is run.
Roteiro, argumento e direção ficam a cargo de Kerrigan, a produção corre por conta de Carlos Masotti, auxiliado pela mulher, encarregando-se Américo Masotti da fotografia.
Screenplay, argument and direction are Kerrigan's job, Carlos Masotti, aided by his wife, is in charge of production Americo Masotti does the photography.
Financing is done by the local Banco Campos, Lima & Cia. bank's manager Fernando Máximo.
In Guaranésia
Guaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
there was a major difficulty to find persons willing to act in a movie. Like generally in Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
at that time, cinema people were often seen as immoral. So good part of the actors and actresses had to be brought from São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
. But yet the makers of the movie and the two daughters of Carlos Masotti would have to join the cast.
The cast for the main roles was composed by José Rodrigues
José Rodrigues
José Rodrigues de Carvalho was a Portuguese painter.Considered his most famous work, O Pobre Rabequista , painted in 1855, was first shown in Paris at the Universal Exhibition in 1855 and at the International Exposition of Porto in 1865, where he won the second award.-Early life:José Rodrigues,...
, an experienced actor who had already performed under Kerrigan's direction at APA Film and Lilian Loty, until then a theater actress in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, for the respective main roles. Another important male role was performed by William Gautier. For Waldemar Rodrigues, that one's the pseudonym Kerrigan himself joins the cast with. And two daughters of Carlos Masotti's, Míriam (pseudonym: Miriam Clermont) and Lídia (pseudonym: Lídia Clermont) play minor female roles .
Corações em SuplícioCorações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
- Incidents
- The main actress, Lilian Loty, constantly refused to use skirts when not filming and did not care at all for the scandal a woman in trousers would mean on Brazilian countryside in the 1920s.
- The scandal grew when Lilian Loty still started an affair with the local farmer Oliveira Ramos who's described as a respected and married gentleman.
- There's cabaret scenes in Corações e Suplício, and a major trouble was how to run them since among the local young women nobody was willing to take a mundane's role. The producers made the trip to the neighboring GuaxupéGuaxupéGuaxupé is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 47,894 people living in a total area of 286 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
and hired actual hookers at a brothel there. While these scenes were run, the prostitutes exceeded dancing and giving scandals in public so that a collective arrest was announced.
- For the cabaret scenes, GuaranésiaGuaranésiaGuaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
's young single men seemed to enjoy "helping out" with background roles: this caused the break-up of a huge amount of courtships and engagements.
Corações em SuplícioCorações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
- The Movie
Corações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
is one of those dramas where in the end the hero saves the young lady at the last moment. During the adventures, the hero takes a blow on his head, goes crazy but is finally healed by a famous alienist. Madnesses and amnesias finally healed through competent professional intervention are a recurrent issue in Mineiro
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
movies from those years. Two examples stated are Pedro Comello's Os Três Irmãos (= The Three Brothers; Cataguases
Cataguases
Cataguases is a city located in the southeastern part of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It is mainly an industrial centre with a strong influence of coffee plantation in its early history . The population was estimated at about 62,000 inhabitants in 1996 and is expected to be at about 66,000...
, 1925) and José Silva
Jose Silva
Jose Silva may refer to:* José Silva * José Silva , baseball player* José Asunción Silva, Colombian poet* José Silva , Venezuelan canoer...
's Perante Deus (= Before God; Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, 1930).
The film premiered at Teatro Rio Branco in Guaranésia
Guaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
Thursday, January 7th, 1926, at 7:30 pm. Few days later - before January 13th - it officially premiered at Cine Rialto in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, RJ
Rio de Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 states of Brazil.Rio de Janeiro has the second largest economy of Brazil behind only São Paulo state.The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast...
.
No surviving copy is known of this movie is known despite one has been informed to exist, but not yet located. What remains of of Masotti brothers' work are the saints in Guaranésia
Guaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
's Matriz Church they fixed soon after their arrival in 1923.
Corações em SuplícioCorações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
- Critics
Cinema magazine SelectaSelecta
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's critics consider the movie good but focus on Kerrigan with restrictions, what might be due to the high debts he assumed during the making of Corações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
. Américo Masotti's photography is highly praised and the film is recommended to be watched. In its issue from January 13th, 1926, it says: "E. C. Kerrigan is not yet a practical director, nor does he seem to be the same for the whole movie". But Selecta
Selecta
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's critics state: "It's not yet a perfect work, but it's always better than many foreign movies, including North-American ones, we have watched". After Rio de Janeiro, the movie premiers in several Brazilian
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
cities and abroad, including in the USA and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
Corações em SuplícioCorações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
- The Aftermath
The production of Corações em SuplícioCorações em Suplício
Corações em Suplício is a 1926 Brazilian drama film directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and produced by Masotti Film in Guaranésia, MG in 1925, the town where it was run....
had cost more than any commercial success could return, specially since Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
had been extremely generous in taking bank loans - it's said that specially for himself - accounted for Masotti Film.
Banco Campos, Lima & Cia. ends going bankrupt.
Carlos Masotti and Américo Masotti transfer themselves and their Masotti Film to Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
where they still produce some documentaries, but they never recover financially and go into bankruptcy either. Carlos Masotti dies shortly after, December 10, 1927.
Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
leaves Guaranésia
Guaranésia
Guaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
and moves to Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
, RS
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...
where in 1928 he runs Amor que Redime for Ita Film, a movie for which photography he calls his former sponsor Thomaz de Tullio from Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, SP. One year later, in 1929, he directs his last movie, Revelação for Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
's Unifilmes studios.
When years later it came out that Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
actually was an Italian immigrant called Eugenio Centenaro, his old friend Arturo Carrari
Arturo Carrari
Arturo Carrari was an early Italian Brazilian film director, film producer, screenwriter and occasional actor best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s.-Director filmography:*Os Milagres de Nossa Senhora da Aparecida...
- who had accompanied Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
's inventions and feats - proposed him to produce a biographic movie of his life, with Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
himself in the role of the fake count, but that project never became real. Kerrigan
Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan
William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
died in Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
December 25, 1956.
Cast
- Lilian Loty (actually Isaura (Loty?), also knwon as Lia de Loty, Djenane de Loty and Lilian de Loty; female main role)
- José RodriguesJosé RodriguesJosé Rodrigues de Carvalho was a Portuguese painter.Considered his most famous work, O Pobre Rabequista , painted in 1855, was first shown in Paris at the Universal Exhibition in 1855 and at the International Exposition of Porto in 1865, where he won the second award.-Early life:José Rodrigues,...
(Roberto Rodrigues, according to some sources; male main role) - William Gautier
- Waldemar Rodrigues (name under which KerriganEugenio Centenaro KerriganWilliam Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s...
took part in the cast) - Miguel Ascoli
- Tonico Caravieri
- Lídia Clermont (actually Lídia Masotti, daughter of Carlos Masotti)
- Míriam Clermont (actually Míriam Masotti, daughter of Carlos Masotti)
- Hippólito Collomb
- José do Plínio
- Rosetti Finzi
- Eurico Flavi
- Fernando Latorre (in his civil life, a taylor in GuaranésiaGuaranésiaGuaranésia is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,649 people living in a total area of 294 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of São Sebastião do Paraíso. It...
) - Jacomino Pardini
- William Rodrigues
- Antonio Rolando