Аватар персоны Mauro Soares

Mauro Soares

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Mauro Soares is an awarded Portuguese actor. Having started his career in theater during his Integrated Masters in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, he starred in films such as António One Two Three (IFFR 2017), Sol Alegria (IFFR 2018), Bela Mandil (Viennale 2018) and Half a Light-Year (IDFA 2021), having produced the latter. Mauro co-wrote and starred in Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (IFFR 2020), Life Lasts Two Days (FIDMarseille 2022) which he also produced, is a Berlinale Talents Acting Studio alumnus of 2019, part of the cast of The Portuguese Woman (Berlinale 2019) and 1st Assistant Director in The Kegelstatt Trio (Berlinale 2022).

01-10-1988

Birthday

Libra

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

14

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Viseu, Portugal

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

14 Works

producer

1 Works

director

4 Works

writer

2 Works

other

1 Works

Greice

Greice

Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering she’s back in the country and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.
9.0

Year:

2024

Human Flowers of Flesh

Human Flowers of Flesh

Ida lives on a sailing yacht with a crew of five men. While on shore leave in Marseilles, she becomes fascinated with the French Foreign Legion and decides to sail to Sidi Bel Abbès, the Legion's former headquarters in Algeria.
6.0

Year:

2023

Life Lasts Two Days

Life Lasts Two Days

Rómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident starts a wave of absurd events. Far from there, Orlando, his twin brother and rare works dealer tries to buy the book of a Brazilian student with financial problems. The twins' lives will be on a collision course with the arrival of a mysterious manuscript.
0.0

Year:

2022

The Kegelstatt Trio

The Kegelstatt Trio

Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E-flat may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart...
0.0

Year:

2022

Half a Light-Year

Half a Light-Year

A young man sits on a busy street in Lisbon to draw the people passing by. Not too distant, a couple talks about the origin of a wallet found months earlier. The light of one moment is reflected on the other.
0.0

Year:

2021

Foreign Desert

Foreign Desert

A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.
0.0

Year:

2020

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain

In the year 74 BC, Titus Lucretius Carus, a young man with bold ideas, tries to convince his friend Memio that moving to the city of Rome to study is a total waste of time. Years later, Lucretius returns from the capital. Trying to find a balance between his explanations of the natural world and his emotional experience of it, Lucretius lives a deep and troubled passion with his foreign wife Isa.
5.7

Year:

2020

The Useless

The Useless

Alice decides to move to Berlin, and Ema, her roommate, organizes her a farewell dinner, “The Useless”.
0.0

Year:

2019

Bela Mandil

Bela Mandil

Through saline paths, hand in hand, two lovers wander, in “Bela Mandil”.
0.0

Year:

2019

Antonio One Two Three

Antonio One Two Three

Antonio runs away from home and tries to spend the night at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. There he finds a brazilian girl, an unexpected guest. Johnny is struggling to stage his first theater play in Lisbon. His friendship with the young light technician will make him face his real problems. Débora is passing by, finally returning home. When she goes to the theater, she falls asleep, and is awaken by the protagonist. Three dimensions of the same story.
6.2

Year:

2019

The Portuguese Woman

The Portuguese Woman

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreigner' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
6.4

Year:

2019

Hello My First Love, Over and Out

Hello My First Love, Over and Out

Hans is addressing his first love, Arief, as if he could hear him despite the distance and time. This heart-breaking love letter guides his steps in search of Arief, while Agnès, Hans’ feminine double, reappears like a ghost. The Hans/Agnès duo roam the streets of Lisbon in a phantasmagorical and desperate quest, to remind us that it is impossible to escape one’s past.
0.0

Year:

2018

Sol Alegria

Sol Alegria

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
5.7

Year:

2018