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Mulheres de Areia (1993)

Mulheres de Areia poster
Directed by
Wolf Maya
Genre
telenovela
Country
Brazil
Length
1 season, 203 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Twin sisters with opposite personalities fight over love and family in a small coastal town. One is kind and selfless while the other is manipulative and ambitious.

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What happens

Mulheres de Areia (Portuguese pronunciation: [muˈʎɛɾiʒ dʒaˈɾejɐ], transl. Sand Women) is a Brazilian telenovela produced by the TV Globo and aired between 1 February 1993 and 24 September 1993, in 203 episodes. It was written by Ivani Ribeiro with the contribution of Solange Castro Neves and directed by Wolf Maya, Ignácio Coqueiro, Andre Schultz and Carlos Magalhães. It is a remake of the soap opera of the same name that aired on the now-defunct Rede Tupi from 1973 to 1974, when Eva Wilma portrayed the two main characters of the plot (the twins Ruth and Raquel), which in turn is based on the 1965 radio soap opera As Noivas Morrem no Mar (The Brides Die at Sea). In 2023, it received a special re-airing in honor of its 30th anniversary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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