Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
, produced and broadcast by
TV Globo
TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Gr ...
. It originally aired between August 14, 1989, and March 30, 1990, spanning 196 episodes. It was TV Globo's 41st primetime telenovela, preceded by ''
O Salvador da Pátria
''O Salvador da Pátria'' (''The Savior of the Homeland'' in English) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo
TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television ...
'' and followed by ''
Rainha da Sucata
''Rainha da Sucata'' (Portuguese for ''Queen of Scrap'') is a Brazilian telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''nov ...
''.
It was based on Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's 1977 novel of the same name, and was written by Aguinaldo Silva, Ricardo Linhares and Ana Maria Moretzsohn. It was directed by Reynaldo Boury, Ricardo Waddington and Luiz Fernando Carvalho, under general direction by Paulo Ubiratan.
In June 2012 it was released on DVD by
Globo Marcas
Globo Marcas was a Brazilian company of branding and advertising, owned by Grupo Globo
Grupo Globo ( en, Globo Group), formerly known as Organizações Globo ( en, Globo Organization), is a Brazilian private mass media conglomerate based in ...
.
Production
Helena Gastal and Lessa de Lacerda designed over one thousand costumes for the novel. Iris Gomes da Costa researched expressions cited in the work of Jorge Amado, and colloquial terms of the region, so that the characters spoke with the accent and used the vocabulary of northeastern Brazil.
The fictional city of ''Santana do Agreste'' was composed of 46 buildings, 2 churches, 8 streets, 2 squares, an abandoned circus and 15 ruins. Everything was built in an area of 10,000m², in Guaratiba, a West Zone neighborhood in the city of
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...
, Brazil. The street floors were a reproduction of those made in fiberglass by local artisanin in
Laranjeiras
Laranjeiras (, ''orange trees'') is an upper-middle-class neighborhood located in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Primarily residential, It is one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, having been founded in the 17th century, with th ...
, a town in the state of
Sergipe
Sergipe (), officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil. Located in the Northeast Region along the Atlantic coast of the country, Sergipe is the smallest state in Brazil by geographical area at , larger only than the Federal District. Serg ...
. Production artists Cristina Médicis, Marta Kubitschek and Andréa Penafiel took local objects and saints statues from Sergipe to Rio de Janeiro, in order to compose the cenography.
Cast
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Betty Faria
Elisabeth Maria Silva de Faria known professionally as Betty Faria (born May 8, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress.
She is best known for her interpretation of the title character in the 1989 telenovela '' Tieta''.
She (co-won wi ...
José Mayer
José Mayer Drumond (born 3 October 1949) is a Brazilian former actor.
Biography and career
Mayer was born in Jaguaraçu, Minas Gerais, and made his debut on television in 1977 in an children's television series '' Sítio do Picapau Amarelo''. ...
Luíza Tomé
Luíza Francineide Coutinho Tomé (born May 10, 1961, Amontada, Brazil, then raised in Itapipoca) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for acting in Globo telenovelas through the 1990s and early 2000s, including '' Pedra sobre Pedra'', ' ...
Lília Cabral
Lília Cabral Bertolli Figueiredo (born 13 July 1957) is a Brazilian actress. She has already been nominated twice to the International Emmy Award for Best Actress.
Biography
She is daughter of an Italian father, Gino Bertolli, and a Portugue ...
Miriam Pires
Miriam de Souza Pires (20 April 1927 – 7 September 2004) was a Brazilian actress. She acted in over 40 telenovelas, including prominent roles in ''Irmãos Coragem'', '' Pecado Capital'', '' Gabriela'', '' Pedra sobre Pedra'', ''Sonho Meu'', a ...
- Dona Milu
Soundtrack
''Tieta'' spanned two soundtrack albums, ''Tieta'' and ''Tieta 2'', both released in 1989. During its reprise, in 1994,
Som Livre
Som Livre (Portuguese for "''Free Sound''") is a Brazilian record company that was founded in 1969 in order to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks. It later expanded to recording studio albums.
Today, Som Livre is Brazil's largest domestic l ...
released an album entitled ''Tieta Especial'', compiling the hit songs of the two original albums. Its cover was similar to that of ''Tieta 2'', with a photo of
Betty Faria
Elisabeth Maria Silva de Faria known professionally as Betty Faria (born May 8, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress.
She is best known for her interpretation of the title character in the 1989 telenovela '' Tieta''.
She (co-won wi ...