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Órfãos da Terra (2019)

Órfãos da Terra poster
Genre
telenovela
Country
Brazil
Length
1 season, 154 episodes
Rated
12
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This telenovela follows the lives of refugees and displaced people, especially Lebanese Brazilians in São Paulo. It centers on their struggles to find safety and belonging while dealing with love, family, and cultural identity.

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What happens

Órfãos da Terra (English: Orphans of a Nation) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo, from 2 April 2019 to 27 September 2019. The telenovela is written by Duca Rachid and Thelma Guedes, with Dora Castellar, Aimar Labaki, Carolina Ziskind and Cristina Biscay as co-writers. It is directed by André Câmara and Gustavo Fernandez, and co-directed by Pedro Peregrino, Bruno Safadi, Alexandre Macedo and Lúcio Tavares. It stars Julia Dalavia, Renato Góes, Alice Wegmann, Carmo Dalla Vecchia and Rodrigo Simas in the main roles. The telenovela addresses the refugee crisis around the world, and the displaced Lebanese Brazilians living in São Paulo since the 20th century. In 2020, the show won the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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