Underplayed Gems

Roque Santeiro (1985)

Roque Santeiro poster
Genre
soap opera, telenovela
Country
Brazil
Length
1 season, 209 episodes
Rated
L
Rating
8.8 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This telenovela is about a small town where a local man is believed to be a saint after his supposed death. Meanwhile, the man is actually alive and returns, causing chaos with the town's corrupt leaders and his former fiancée.

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What happens

Roque Santeiro is a Brazilian primetime telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 24 June 1985 (replacing Corpo a Corpo) and ended on 21 February 1986, (replaced by Selva de Pedra). The script was created by Dias Gomes —based on a play O Berço do Herói (Hero's Cradle)— and starred Regina Duarte, Lima Duarte, José Wilker, Lucinha Lins, Yoná Magalhães, Paulo Gracindo, Armando Bógus, Cássia Kis Magro, Elizângela, Fábio Júnior, Lídia Brondi, Cláudio Cavalcanti, Cláudia Raia, Lutero Luiz, Maurício Mattar, Eloísa Mafalda and Ary Fontoura. It was directed by Paul Ubiratan and co-written by Aguinaldo Silva. Roque Santeiro became a great success, with high viewership levels, and is recognized today as one of the best telenovelas of all time. It was distributed to several different countries around the world, and had an audience of 60 million viewers (out of approxmimentally 135-138 million Brazilians at the time), and is currently the most-watched show in the history of Brazilian television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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