In 1985, the first soap opera on TV Manchete arrival on the small screen; However, the failure of work and fights in the backstage transformed it into a nightmare
Extinct Title made a colossal failure debut for 40 years: the remake of Antonio Maria. The work was originally produced by Tv Tupi extinct in 1968. With a renewed version, the station tried to approach another audience with the soap opera, but has failed and generated the chaos behind the scenes between the cast and the author.
It didn’t work
The Soap Opera was a partnership between TV Manchete and RTP (Portuguese radio and television). The soap opera bears the name of the gallant immigrant who, in this version, was interpreted by Felipe Sinde. The first time, the role was Sérgio Cardoso. Second Nilson Xavierfrom Television dramaThe biggest mistake has already occurred in the initial chapter, with the protagonist who is a millionaire and fleeing a woman in love and very possessive, Amália (Amália (Eugênia Melo and Castro). This was the great secret of the plot, as Xavier recalled, and in the end it was thrown away. In both versions, the work was written and directed by Geraldo Vietri.
Tension in the backstage
Xavier also recalls that the soap opera had a chaotic production: the artists who were part of the work complained of the scenes of the working conditions that were inserted and the lack of patience of the author. The public eventually failed and did not reach the expected rates. From July 1985 to November of the same year, Manchete has held the soap opera in the air. But in the book Brazilian television biography, José Armando Vanucci and Flávio Ricco Remember that the title only put another soap opera in April 1986, this is Dona Beija – which receives a remake in 2026 and will be displayed in HBO Max.
Another point that Nilson says, is that in this version, Geraldo Vietri has given a more comic and non -existent tone in the first version. The author also put some tragedies that were not even part of the original work.
Eliminated from your career
In an interview with Guilherme Bryan and Vincent Villari for the book Television drama, The History of Brasilian Television, Eugênia Melo and Castro He spoke of the tensions behind – he also revealed that the soundtrack – that Vietri gave it the mission and freedom to produce musically – “Zero importance” For her:
“I don’t even say that this album is part of my career, such is the importance for me. Zero! I did not like the soap opera. Vietri was wrong to everyone. Only me and the synde was that it was fine, because we were European. The rest was treated, verbal and physically. Because Vietri completely crossed. It was very difficult. It was very crazy. We didn’t know.”
Source: Terra
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