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Sinhá Moça (1986)

Sinhá Moça poster
Genre
telenovela
Country
Brazil
Length
1 season, 173 episodes
Rated
L
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a Brazilian telenovela set in the 19th century. It follows a young woman from a wealthy family who falls in love with a man involved in the abolitionist movement. Their romance unfolds against the social tensions of slavery and changing times.

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What happens

Sinhá Moça (Little Missy) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast in the 6:00 PM timeslot by TV Globo, from 28 April to 14 November 1986, in 168 episodes. It substituted De Quina pra Lua and was succeeded by Direito de Amar. Written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa, it is freely inspired by the novel of the same name by Maria Dezonne Pacheco Fernandes, with the collaboration of Edmara Barbosa and Edilene Barbosa and direction of Reynaldo Boury and Jayme Monjardim. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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