As Curas do Professor Mozart
About As Curas do Professor Mozart
Alberto Botelho's silent short, made in Rio de Janeiro for A. Botelho Film, takes as its subject the healer Mozart Dias Teixeira, who that year began appearing in Brazilian newspapers as Professor Mozart.
Cast & crew
More about As Curas do Professor Mozart
Botelho directed. IMDb lists the short as silent and black and white, produced by A. Botelho Film. A 2022 article in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos cites the film as As Curas do Professor Mozart, directed by Alberto Botelho, Rio de Janeiro, A. Botelho Filme, 1924, in a study of the healer's career from 1924 to 1939.
Themes
Background
In 1924 Professor Mozart was a new name in the Brazilian press. Botelho's short was made in that first year of the controversy.
Preservation
A copy is included in the Cinemateca Brasileira rescue file of Brazilian silent shorts on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Mozart Dias Teixeira practiced healing in several Brazilian cities in the 1920s and 1930s and drew newspaper attacks that called him a charlatan.
- The circulating file groups the short with other Botelho material under the heading Ciências e Riquezas.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Resgate do Cinema Silencioso Brasileiro - Ciências E Riquezas - As Curas Do Professor Mozart - 1924.webm)