Laços de Família
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Laços de Família is a Brazil
ian telenovela
produced and aired by Rede Globo in his time of 20 hours of June 5, 2000 to February 3, 2001. With a total of 209
chapters (150
in the international version displayed in countries such as Portugal
), was written by Manoel Carlos, in collaboration with Maria Carolina, Vinicius Vianna, Flávia Lins e Silva and Fausto Galvão, and directed by Moacyr Góes and Leandro Neri with general direction of Ricardo Waddington, Roger Gomes and Marcos Schechtman.
It starred Vera Fischer
and Carolina Dieckmann
and actors Reynaldo Gianecchini
, José Mayer, Tony Ramos, as the respective protagonists of the plot, and actress Deborah Secco
as the main antagonist of the story
.
woman aged 45 who lives in the neighbourhood of Leblon
and works in a beauty clinic. She is involved in a car accident with Edu, a 25 year-old doctor
who had just graduated, in front of the bookstore owned by Dom Casmurro Miguel, on the eve of New Year 2000. When taken by Edu to the bookstore to be attended by first aid, she arouses the love of Miguel.
Miguel is a mean who leads a quiet life with his two children. The rebellious and irresponsible Ciça, the youngest of the two, questions all actions taken by her father and, while being quite immature, she loves her family. Paulo, the eldest, suffers from a complex mental problem since his mother died in a car accident. He follows treatment with the physical therapist Isabel, who is secretly in love with him.
Edu and Helena soon become involved in a controversial love story. They are stigmatized by members of the family because of the wide age gap (20 years) between Helena and Edu. The main obstacle is Alma Flora, Edu's overprotective aunt, who tries her utmost to keep her nephew away from Helena. Being unable to have children, Alma takes care of Edu and his sister Estella as her own, often interfering heavily in the personal lives of the siblings. She also manages the fortune and the farm which they inherited after the death of Edu and Estella's parents. They all live in a mansion in the neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca
, along with Danilo, Alma's fourth husband. Danilo is portrayed as a bon vivant and quite a womanizer, repeatedly attempting to seduce Rita, the housemaid. Rodrigo is in love with Alma, and dreams of being her fifth husband.
The farms owned are attended to by Pedro, an arrogant, tough and nasty man who has a passion for horses. In the past, he was romantically involved with his cousin, a young Helena. Today he is married to the florist Sylvia. After several bouts of jealousy, he gradually loosens his ties with Sylvia. He gets to know the new veterinary, Cíntia, and after many conflicts between the two, he begins to like her.
Helena has two children. Fred, the eldest, is an unemployed engineer. His wife is Clara, a rich girl who married young and cannot adapt to a life of financial difficulties. The two have a daughter, Nina, who provides an excuse for Clara to convince Fred to rent an expensive apartment for only three, when they could have been living with Fred's mother Helena. Helena's youngest child is Camila, a Literature student at Oxford, England. She meets Edu on a trip to Japan, while the young man is visiting the country with Helena. On her return to Brazil, she develops a strong bond of friendship with Edu, since the two are the same age and have similar tastes.
Later, Camila and Edu realize they are in love with each other. Both try resist out of respect for Helena. The latter progressively realizes that her boyfriend has been seduced by her own daughter. Furthermore, Edu's aunt Alma dislikes Helena, and does everything to catalyze the romance between Camila and Edu. After many discussions and quarrels, Helena breaks away from him so that Edu and Camila can enjoy their love story to the fullest. Discovering that Helena is single, Miguel decides to conquer her, and successfully does so.
One character who does not welcome the relationship between Camila and Edu is Iris, half-sister of Helena. Their father is the old Alessio, who is married to Ingrid, Iris's mother. Iris moves to Rio de Janeiro
to live with Helena after the death of her mother, shot in a gas station while trying to save her daughter. Iris claims that Helena's daughter, Camila "stole" her mother's boyfriend, and she tries many plots to try to separate them. Iris herself is in love with Pedro, who sees her as a mere spoiled little girl. Her rival is Cintia, to whom Pedro is physically attracted. Iris tries to separate the couple through several schemes. She manages to awaken the heart of the young Fabio, who falls for her.
Yvete, Helena's best friend confidant, is married to Viriato, a chubby man who enjoys life. He suffers from impotence, and unable to relate sexually with his wife, is wallowing in depression because of increasing prejudice from friends and other people.
A turning point occurs when Camila becomes pregnant with Edu's child, while Miguel is on the verge of proposing to Helena. This is all shattered by the discovery that Camila suffers from leukemia and that she has lost the baby she was expecting. To save her, she desperately needs a marrow donor, as she and her half-brother Fred are not from the same parent. Helena then reveals the paternity of her daughter: Camila is the daughter she had with Pedro. She enjoyed sexual intercourse with Pedro when both were young and as a consequence, was expelled from her father Alessio's house in the countryside. Only Yvete and her were aware of this secret. Wishing to save her daughter from her illness, Helena, with the permission of Miguel, has a child with Pedro in order to save Camila.
Meanwhile, Capitu is a university student and call girl, an activity she practises with her friend Simone. Both are controlled by Fernando. Capitu, with her salary, supports her parents Pasqual, a retired intellectual who works as a book reviewer for Miguel and Ema, a housewife and seamstress. She used to be romantically involved with Helena's son, Fred. However, for various reasons, the latter disappears from her life to marry Clara. For the love of Fred, Capitu decides to leave prostitution. But before that, she is stuck a living hell, as Orlando, a former customer, is obsessed with her, and is trying to get her back into a life of prostitution by constantly harassing her. Furthermore, the parasite Maurinho, who is the father of Capitu's toddler son Bruno, is always after her in attempts to get money. One day, Miguel's son Paulo comes across Capitu and falls in love with her; his shyness and lack of confidence prevent the young man from confessing his feelings to the object of his love.
Cintia reunites with her former lover Romeu. Miguel is at last able to asks Helena in marriage and she accepts; the two marry in a church. The formerly cynical Ciça is finally interested in Ricardo at the airport. Three years pass until the feast day of the 3rd year of Vitoria. Some couples are now seemingly stable with children: Helena and Miguel, Iris (pregnant) and Pedro, Clara (pregnant) with an unknown character, Capitu (with child and pregnant) and Fred. Only Edu and Camila, and Estella and Bento have no child yet.
2003 - Channel One (Russia)
2002 - 2001/2002 - Lider TV 2001/2002 - 2002 - 2002/2003 - 2001/2002 - 2001 - 2001/2002 - 2002/2003
classics and contemporary English language pop
and country music
.
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 telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
produced and aired by Rede Globo in his time of 20 hours of June 5, 2000 to February 3, 2001. With a total of 209
209
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chapters (150
150
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in the international version displayed in countries such as Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
), was written by Manoel Carlos, in collaboration with Maria Carolina, Vinicius Vianna, Flávia Lins e Silva and Fausto Galvão, and directed by Moacyr Góes and Leandro Neri with general direction of Ricardo Waddington, Roger Gomes and Marcos Schechtman.
It starred Vera Fischer
Vera Fischer
Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. A former beauty pageant titleholder, she was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969.-Biography:...
and Carolina Dieckmann
Carolina Dieckmann
Carolina Dieckmann is a Brazilian actress.Dieckmann acted in soap operas since 1992. A 2004 article in the Women's Wear Daily described Dieckmann as one of the "fastest-rising actresses" in Brazil....
and actors Reynaldo Gianecchini
Reynaldo Gianecchini
Reynaldo Gianecchini is a Brazilian actor.He started acting at the age of 6, on the stage of his school in Birigüi, São Paulo...
, José Mayer, Tony Ramos, as the respective protagonists of the plot, and actress Deborah Secco
Deborah Secco
Deborah Fialho Secco is a Brazilian actress.- Television Series :- Films :-Magazine covers:* Uma Magazine, in February 2007....
as the main antagonist of the story
Narrative
A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...
.
Synopsis
Helena, a businessBusiness
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
woman aged 45 who lives in the neighbourhood of Leblon
Leblon
Leblon is an affluent neighbourhood and a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It's a neighbourhood of upper class people in the southern zone of the city...
and works in a beauty clinic. She is involved in a car accident with Edu, a 25 year-old doctor
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
who had just graduated, in front of the bookstore owned by Dom Casmurro Miguel, on the eve of New Year 2000. When taken by Edu to the bookstore to be attended by first aid, she arouses the love of Miguel.
Miguel is a mean who leads a quiet life with his two children. The rebellious and irresponsible Ciça, the youngest of the two, questions all actions taken by her father and, while being quite immature, she loves her family. Paulo, the eldest, suffers from a complex mental problem since his mother died in a car accident. He follows treatment with the physical therapist Isabel, who is secretly in love with him.
Edu and Helena soon become involved in a controversial love story. They are stigmatized by members of the family because of the wide age gap (20 years) between Helena and Edu. The main obstacle is Alma Flora, Edu's overprotective aunt, who tries her utmost to keep her nephew away from Helena. Being unable to have children, Alma takes care of Edu and his sister Estella as her own, often interfering heavily in the personal lives of the siblings. She also manages the fortune and the farm which they inherited after the death of Edu and Estella's parents. They all live in a mansion in the neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca
Barra da Tijuca
Barra da Tijuca is a famous neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, located southwest of the city on the Atlantic Ocean. Barra, as it is popularly known, will have most of the venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics, which will be the first edition held in South America. Barra is well-known for its...
, along with Danilo, Alma's fourth husband. Danilo is portrayed as a bon vivant and quite a womanizer, repeatedly attempting to seduce Rita, the housemaid. Rodrigo is in love with Alma, and dreams of being her fifth husband.
The farms owned are attended to by Pedro, an arrogant, tough and nasty man who has a passion for horses. In the past, he was romantically involved with his cousin, a young Helena. Today he is married to the florist Sylvia. After several bouts of jealousy, he gradually loosens his ties with Sylvia. He gets to know the new veterinary, Cíntia, and after many conflicts between the two, he begins to like her.
Helena has two children. Fred, the eldest, is an unemployed engineer. His wife is Clara, a rich girl who married young and cannot adapt to a life of financial difficulties. The two have a daughter, Nina, who provides an excuse for Clara to convince Fred to rent an expensive apartment for only three, when they could have been living with Fred's mother Helena. Helena's youngest child is Camila, a Literature student at Oxford, England. She meets Edu on a trip to Japan, while the young man is visiting the country with Helena. On her return to Brazil, she develops a strong bond of friendship with Edu, since the two are the same age and have similar tastes.
Later, Camila and Edu realize they are in love with each other. Both try resist out of respect for Helena. The latter progressively realizes that her boyfriend has been seduced by her own daughter. Furthermore, Edu's aunt Alma dislikes Helena, and does everything to catalyze the romance between Camila and Edu. After many discussions and quarrels, Helena breaks away from him so that Edu and Camila can enjoy their love story to the fullest. Discovering that Helena is single, Miguel decides to conquer her, and successfully does so.
One character who does not welcome the relationship between Camila and Edu is Iris, half-sister of Helena. Their father is the old Alessio, who is married to Ingrid, Iris's mother. Iris moves to 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...
to live with Helena after the death of her mother, shot in a gas station while trying to save her daughter. Iris claims that Helena's daughter, Camila "stole" her mother's boyfriend, and she tries many plots to try to separate them. Iris herself is in love with Pedro, who sees her as a mere spoiled little girl. Her rival is Cintia, to whom Pedro is physically attracted. Iris tries to separate the couple through several schemes. She manages to awaken the heart of the young Fabio, who falls for her.
Yvete, Helena's best friend confidant, is married to Viriato, a chubby man who enjoys life. He suffers from impotence, and unable to relate sexually with his wife, is wallowing in depression because of increasing prejudice from friends and other people.
A turning point occurs when Camila becomes pregnant with Edu's child, while Miguel is on the verge of proposing to Helena. This is all shattered by the discovery that Camila suffers from leukemia and that she has lost the baby she was expecting. To save her, she desperately needs a marrow donor, as she and her half-brother Fred are not from the same parent. Helena then reveals the paternity of her daughter: Camila is the daughter she had with Pedro. She enjoyed sexual intercourse with Pedro when both were young and as a consequence, was expelled from her father Alessio's house in the countryside. Only Yvete and her were aware of this secret. Wishing to save her daughter from her illness, Helena, with the permission of Miguel, has a child with Pedro in order to save Camila.
Meanwhile, Capitu is a university student and call girl, an activity she practises with her friend Simone. Both are controlled by Fernando. Capitu, with her salary, supports her parents Pasqual, a retired intellectual who works as a book reviewer for Miguel and Ema, a housewife and seamstress. She used to be romantically involved with Helena's son, Fred. However, for various reasons, the latter disappears from her life to marry Clara. For the love of Fred, Capitu decides to leave prostitution. But before that, she is stuck a living hell, as Orlando, a former customer, is obsessed with her, and is trying to get her back into a life of prostitution by constantly harassing her. Furthermore, the parasite Maurinho, who is the father of Capitu's toddler son Bruno, is always after her in attempts to get money. One day, Miguel's son Paulo comes across Capitu and falls in love with her; his shyness and lack of confidence prevent the young man from confessing his feelings to the object of his love.
The End
Helena gives birth to a daughter, Victoria, and is able to cure Camila. Iris repents of her wickedness, while Cintia and Pedro have a relapse, leaving Iris free to fulfill her dream of living with Pedro, who is also his cousin. Housemaid Rita died while giving birth to twins from Danilo. Alma accepts to take charge of the twins, but kicks Danilo away from her house.Cintia reunites with her former lover Romeu. Miguel is at last able to asks Helena in marriage and she accepts; the two marry in a church. The formerly cynical Ciça is finally interested in Ricardo at the airport. Three years pass until the feast day of the 3rd year of Vitoria. Some couples are now seemingly stable with children: Helena and Miguel, Iris (pregnant) and Pedro, Clara (pregnant) with an unknown character, Capitu (with child and pregnant) and Fred. Only Edu and Camila, and Estella and Bento have no child yet.
International broadcast
- TelefeTelefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...
2003 - Channel One (Russia)
Channel One (Russia)
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2002 - 2001/2002 - Lider TV 2001/2002 - 2002 - 2002/2003 - 2001/2002 - 2001 - 2001/2002 - 2002/2003
- MauritiusMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
- 2002/2003
Soundtrack
The telenovela's soundtrack gained popular and critical acclaim for its blend of Brazilian bossa novaBossa nova
Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...
classics and contemporary English language pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
.
- "Corcovado" - Performed by Astrud GilbertoAstrud GilbertoAstrud Gilberto is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She is well known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".-Biography:...
and Joao GilbertoJoão GilbertoJoão Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto , is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. His seminal recordings, including many songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre of Bossa nova in the late 1950s.-Biography:From an early age, music... - "I'll TryI'll Try"I'll Try" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was one of two newly-recorded tracks on his 1995 compilation album The Greatest Hits Collection, and like "Tall, Tall Trees" , it was a number-one hit for him on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country...
" - Performed by Alan JacksonAlan JacksonAlan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista... - "BreatheBreathe (Faith Hill song)"Breathe" is a country song by American recording artist Faith Hill, released as the first single from her 1999 album of the same name. The song was written by Stephanie Bentley and Holly Lamar. "Breathe" became Hill's 7th number one on the country music charts in the US. The song spent four weeks...
" - Performed by Faith HillFaith HillFaith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S... - "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!Man! I Feel like a Woman!"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is the seventh single released from Shania Twain's 1997 album Come on Over. It was written by Mutt Lange and Twain. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!," originally released to North American country radio stations in early 1999, was the opening song on both Twain's Come on Over...
" - Performed by Shania TwainShania TwainShania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million... - "Samba de verão" - Performed by Caetano VelosoCaetano VelosoCaetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
- "So Nice (Summer Samba)" - Performed by Bebel GilbertoBebel GilbertoBebel Gilberto is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque...
- "Balada do Amor InabalavelMaquinaramaMaquinarama is the fifth studio album released by Skank, in 2000.With Maquinarama, Skank began to move away from the reggae-tinged "party music" that had been a staple of the band for the first four albums...
" - Performed by SkankSkank (band)Skank is a Brazilian rock/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. , they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums... - "BabyTecnicolorTecnicolor would have been the fourth album by the Brazilian band Os Mutantes. The album was intended to be their introduction in the English-speaking world and included English versions of songs from the albums Os Mutantes and A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado, re-recordings in Portuguese...
" - Performed by Os MutantesOs MutantesOs Mutantes ) are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. It was formed by two brothers and a vocalist, but has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence... - "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" - Performed by MorcheebaMorcheebaMorcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...
- "Love By GraceLove By Grace"Love By Grace" is a song by the Belgian singer Lara Fabian. It was released as the fourth single of her self-titled album.The ballad was a smash hit in Brazil and was part of the soundtrack of the Brazilian hit soap opera Laços de Família.-Reception:...
" - Performed by Lara FabianLara FabianLara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....