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Amor com Amor Se Paga (1984)

Amor com Amor Se Paga poster
Directed by
Gonzaga Blota
Genre
telenovela
Country
Brazil
Length
1 season, 155 episodes
Rated
10
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Brazilian telenovela from the 1980s about romantic entanglements and family dynamics. The story follows characters in a small town dealing with love and misunderstandings.

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What happens

Amor com Amor Se Paga is a Brazilian telenovela produced and displayed at the time of 18 hours by TV Globo, March 19 to September 14, 1984, in 155 chapters. Substitute Voltei pra Você and be succeeded by Livre para Voar. Written by Ivani Ribeiro, with collaboration of Solange Castro Neves, was inspired by the plot Camomila e bem-me-quer, and was directed by Gonzaga Blota, Atílio Riccó and Jayme Monjardim. It was one of the most seen novels of the time of the 18 hours of the Globo. Decades after the first showing of the novel, Ary Fontoura claims to be still called his Nonô on the street, because of the great success of the plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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