| Éramos Seis "We Were Six" |
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| Author(s) | Maria José Dupré |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publication date | 1943 |
| Media type | |
| Followed by | Dona Lola |
Éramos Seis ("We Were Six") is a 1943 Brazilian novel by Maria José Dupré about a struggling middle-class family in São Paulo.[1] Praised by writer and critic Monteiro Lobato, it became a best-selling novel and was awarded the Raul Pompeia Prize for best work of 1943 by the Brazilian Academy of Letters.[1] Dupré published a sequel called Dona Lola in 1949.[1]
Éramos Seis has been adapted as a telenovela four times, in 1958, 1967, 1977, and 1994.
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Éramos Seis chronicles the struggles of a middle-class family in Sao Paulo through the eyes of its matriarch Dona Lola.[1]
Éramos Seis was praised by writer and critic Monteiro Lobato and became a best-selling novel.[1] It was awarded the Raul Pompeia Prize for best work of 1943 by the Brazilian Academy of Letters.[1] Darlene Joy Sadlier writes that Lola's "strength, good humor, love, and ingenuity make for a compelling image of the 'ordinary' wife and mother."[1] She notes that the novel's title is poignant because Lola's husband dies halfway through and the family subsequently disintegrates.[1] The popularity of Lola with the Brazilian public prompted Dupré to publish the sequel Dona Lola in 1949.[1]
To date, Éramos Seis has been adapted for television four times. It was first presented as a telenovela for TV Record in 1958. The novel was next adapted twice for Tupi TV, in 1967 and 1977. Finally, it was adapted by Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão in 1994.
| Éramos Seis | |
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Cast of Éramos Seis |
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| Alternate titles | "We Were Six" |
| Genre | Telenovela |
| Creator(s) | Maria Jose Dupré Sílvio de Abreu Rubens Edwald Filho |
| Senior cast member(s) | Irene Ravache |
| Country of origin | Brazil |
| Language(s) | Portuguese |
| No. of episodes | 180 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Henrique Martins Del Rangel |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | SBT |
| Original run | May 9, 1994 – December 5, 1994 |
SBT broadcast 180 episodes of their version of Éramos Seis from 9 May 1994 through 5 December 1994. The television series was written by Sílvio de Abreu and Rubens Ewald Filho and directed by Nilton Travesso, Henrique Martins, and Del Rangel.
The Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Artes (APCA) honors the best in the fields of stage acting (since 1956), music, literature, film, television, plastic arts (since 1972/1973), and radio (since 1980).[2]