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Senhora

Senhora poster
Genre
telenovela
Country
Brazil

How it feels

This telenovela follows characters dealing with love, money, and social pressures in 19th century Brazil. A young woman tries to control her fate by marrying a man she can buy with her inheritance.

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What happens

Senhora is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo between 30 June and 17 October 1975, running 80 episodes. It succeeded O Noviço and preceded A Moreninha, being the sixth 6 PM telenovela broadcast by TV Globo. It is an adaptation of the homonymous novel, by José de Alencar, being adapted by Gilberto Braga with Herval Rossano as director. It was the first color 6 pm telenovela. It features Norma Blum, Cláudio Marzo, Fátima Freire, Alberto Pérez, Zilka Salaberry, Osmar Prado, Paulo Ramos and Miriam Pires as the main characters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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