Escrava Isaura
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| Escrava Isaura | |
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| Directed by | Milton Gonçalves (1976) Herval Rossano (1976/2004) |
| Written by | Bernardo Guimarães |
| Script by | Gilberto Braga (1976) Tiago Santiago (2004) |
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| Produced by | Rede Globo (1976) Rede Record (2004) |
| Starring | Lucélia Santos (1976) Rubens de Falco (1976) Bianca Rinaldi (2004) Leopoldo Pacheco (2004) |
| Music by | Henrique Daniel (2004) |
| Theme song | Retirantes (1976) Luz do Sol que clareia a Terra (2004) |
| Performed by | Dorival Caymmi (1976) Henrique Daniel (2004) |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Network | Rede Globo (1976) Rede Record (2004) |
| Broadcast | 1976 (Rede Globo) 2004 (Rede Record) |
| No. of episodes | 100 (1976) 175 (2004) |
Escrava Isaura ("Slave Isaura") it is a Brazilian soap opera based on A Escrava Isaura, a Brazilian romance novel written by Bernardo Guimarães and first published in 1875 by Casa Garnier publishers, in Rio de Janeiro. With this novel, Bernardo Guimarães got very famous all over the country. He was even appreciated by Brazil's last Emperor Dom Pedro II.
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[edit] The main plot
Isaura, a white slave girl endured hard times before she was freed and finally married her star-crossed lover, Alvaro. Meanwhile she suffered a lot at the hands of Leôncio Almeida, the landlord of a big plantation farm and main antagonist in the plot, who wanted to make her a concubine. She even became briefly enamoured to the humpback dwarf Melchior and almost married him to avoid prostitution.
[edit] Television adaptations
[edit] Rede Globo adaptation
The novel was made into an extremaly popular telenovela on the late 1970s by Rede Globo. The public often referred to the show as Isaura, the white slave girl. It was 100 episodes long. Isaura was played by Lucélia Santos, on the high point of her career.
The series's emotional story created an incredibly loyal audience all around the world, e.g. in South America, Eastern Europe and China. It was the first Television series allowed to air in China with a foreign actress playing the main character. In Hungary, TV subscribers allegedly spontaneously collected app. 75,000 USD worth of money and sent it to the Brazilian embassy to buy Isaura's freedom.[citation needed] In 1988-1989 the soap opera was shown in the Soviet Union under the title Рабыня Изаура (English: The Slave Isaura).
Escrava Isaura is the most successful Brazilian telenovela and the most-watched telenovela in total viewers in the whole world, achieving record ratings in China.
[edit] Rede Record adaptation
In 2004, another Brazilian television network, Rede Record, made a new adaptation of Bernardo Guimarães' novel. Rede Record ranked second throughout the whole 6 months this telenovela aired, which was something really new in Brazil, since only Globo is known to have successful telenovelas.
The GLOBO adaptation is the most popular Brazilian telenovela ever and this adaptation was quickly sold to lots of countries and achieved high ratings in countries like Chile, Argentina, Portugal, among many others.
