Season 1 • Episode 185
LatestMonarchists and republicans meet in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886. The novel portrays the love story of the beautiful and wealthy Sinhá Moça - daughter of the slave, Barão Ferreira de Araruna, and sweet and submissive Mother Candida - , with the young abolitionist lawyer Dr. Rodolfo Fontes - son of Dr. Fontes, and the housewife Inêz. Together, they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slaves.
Acting
Débora Falabella's transformation from naive to radical.
Production
Lavish 1886 São Paulo interiors that cost a fortune.
Writing
Benedito Ruy Barbosa weaving history into melodrama.
Creator
Benedito Ruy Barbosa
Débora Falabella
Maria das Graças Ferreira, a Sinhá Moça
Danton Mello
Rodolfo Garcia Fontes
Osmar Prado
Coronel José Ferreira, o Barão de Araruna
Patricia Pillar
Cândida Ferreira, a Baronesa de Araruna
Eriberto Leão
Dimas / Rafael
Vanessa Giácomo
Juliana Castroneves
Bruno Gagliasso
Ricardo Garcia Fontes
Isis Valverde
Ana Luísa Maria Teixeira, a Ana do Véu
Caio Blat
Mário Batista
Lucy Ramos
Adelaide de Jesus
Eduardo Pires
José Coutinho
Lu Grimaldi
Inez Garcia Fontes
Reginaldo Faria
Dr. Geraldo Fontes
Gisele Fróes
Nina Teixeira
Oscar Magrini
Manoel Teixeira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Globo's 8pm soap slot replacement, adapting a 1903 novel that helped shape Brazilian abolitionist literature. The network bet big on historical drama during reality TV's rise.
Danton Mello and Débora Falabella had such intense chemistry that viewers petitioned for them to date in real life. They didn't. The nation mourned.
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