Dormant Embers
About Dormant Embers
A rich industrialist sends his son Luís Soares to Rio de Janeiro to study. Luís spends the money and does not study. His father cuts him off. An advertisement leads him to a sugar mill owned by Máximo. He works, and he falls in love with Máximo’s daughter Anita. Máximo opposes the match and threatens to tell Luís’s father if it goes on.
Cast & crew
More about Dormant Embers
Humberto Mauro wrote and directed. Edgar Brasil was cinematographer; Mauro is also credited with the camera. Agenor Cortes de Barros and Homero Cortes Domingues produced. The Portuguese page lists Universal Pictures do Brasil as company and distributor. Nita Ney plays Anita Silva. Luiz Soroa plays Luís. Máximo Serrano plays Máximo. It runs 123 minutes. AdoroCinema dates a cinema opening to 4 March 1928. The Portuguese Wikipedia also prints 4 March 1929.
Themes
Making
Mauro shoots his own script: a son sent to the capital, a mill, and a father who can end the romance with one letter. Edgar Brasil’s photography is the other name on the camera line.
Look
Edgar Brasil photographed the Rio episode and the mill. Mauro shares a camera credit.
Music
Silent, with Portuguese intertitles.
Preservation
A black-and-white print of 123 minutes survives.
Notes
- The period spelling of the title is Braza Dormida. Brasa Dormida is the later spelling.
- Pedro Fantol plays Pedro Bento. Rozendo Franco is an old employee. Côrte Real is Carlos Silva.
- Haroldo Mauro and Juca de Godoy appear as spectators at the Jockey Club.
- Pascoal Ciodaro is billed as a friend of Carlos Augusto Barros.
- Silvio de Figueiredo is credited with the intertitles.
Scenes
- Luís arrives in Rio to study and spends what his father sent.
- Cut off, he answers a newspaper notice and reaches Máximo’s mill.
- He and Anita begin a romance the mill owner says he will report.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Brasa Dormida (1928) .webm)
