Amor à Vida

Amor à Vida
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Walcyr Carrasco
Starring	Paolla Oliveira Malvino Salvador Mateus Solano Antônio Fagundes Susana Vieira Eliane Giardini Klara Castanho Vanessa Giácomo
Opening theme	"Maravida" by Daniel
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language(s)	Portuguese
No. of episodes	221
Production
Executive producer(s)	Wolf Maia
Location(s)	Brazil and Peru
Camera setup	Multiple-camera setup
Running time	70 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Rede Globo
Picture format	(HDTV) 1080i – 16:9 (SDTV) 480i – 4:3
Original run	20 May 2013 – 31 January 2014
Chronology
Preceded by	Salve Jorge
Followed by	Em Família
External links
Website

Amor à Vida (English: Trail of Lies^{[nb 1]}) is a Brazilian primetime telenovela created by Walcyr Carrasco. It premiered on 20 May 2013 on Rede Globo at 9 pm timeslot.

Paolla Oliveira and Malvino Salvador star as the protagonists, while Mateus Solano, Vanessa Giácomo and Juliano Cazarré star as the antagonists.^[2][3]

Plot

First Phase

2001 – The story revolves around a wealthy family's struggles for control of the renowned San Magno Hospital, in São Paulo. The hospital belongs to the Khoury family, headed by general practitioner César Khoury (Antonio Fagundes). Most of the family are doctors: Caesar's wife, Pilar (Susana Vieira), is a retired dermatologist and Paloma (Paolla Oliveira), the couple's youngest daughter, has just been accepted to a college to study medicine after several unsuccessful attempts in other areas. Only Felix (Mateus Solano), the eldest son, shows no motivation to follow the same career, but he does not lack ambition. Since he could not be a doctor, Felix studied administration so he could work on the hospital board and plans to one day head the family business. Felix is gay, but married a stylist, Edith (Barbara Paz), to keep up appearances.

To commemorate Paloma's acceptance into college, the family travels to Machu Picchu in Peru, where Paloma meets Ninho (Juliano Cazarré). Ninho is a backpacker who adopts a lifestyle free of rules and Paloma falls in love with him. Tired of fighting with her mother, she decides to leave the family and college to live with Ninho. The couple spends about a year hitchhiking aimlessly around South America, living in intense passion, until Paloma discovers she is pregnant. Without money and thinking about the baby's future, she decides to return to her parents' home in São Paulo, and convinces Ninho to go with her.

To pay for the ticket, Ninho decides to smuggle drugs during the trip. However, Ninho is detained at the airport in Bolivia after being found with drugs on his body. Paloma flies back to São Paulo alone and trusts her brother to help her face their family. Felix convinces his sister that it would be better to keep her pregnancy a secret. Back in her parents' house, Felix's wife, Edith, helps Paloma disguise her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes to avoid raising suspicion. Near the end of Paloma's pregnancy, Ninho leaves prison and goes to São Paulo. Felix pretends to help the couple, but really he plans to get rid of them and become the sole heir of the family. Paloma decides to leave home to be with Ninho, but is caught by her parents who are shocked to realize that she is expecting a baby. After arguing with her mother, Paloma leaves and spends the night in a bar with Ninho. After a lot of drinking to celebrate his release from jail, Ninho has a nasty argument with Paloma and says he does not want to start a family. Very disappointed, Paloma sends him away. In her state of anxiety Paloma goes into premature labor, and ends up giving birth to a girl in the bathroom of the bar with the help of bar patron Marcia (Elizabeth Savalla), a former "chacrete" (TV dancer). Felix, who had gone in search of his sister, arrives at the bar to find Paloma unconscious in the bathroom with no one but her newborn daughter at her side. Marcia had called an ambulance and left for fear of being arrested.

Feeling threatened by the infant heir of the Khoury family, Felix kidnaps the child and leaves her in a dumpster in an alley. When she awakes, Paloma cannot find the baby and is convinced that her daughter was mysteriously stolen without a trace. Paloma's path will soon intersect with Bruno (Malvino Salvador), a kind man who just lost his wife and his newborn son due to complications in childbirth. While distressed by that incident, and wandering the streets, Bruno finds Paloma's daughter in a dumpster after he hears her crying. Bruno sees the incident as a divine sign, a chance for him to start a new life, and takes the baby girl home. Bruno receives help from his mother, a nurse named Ordália (Eliane Giardini), who works at the San Magno hospital, as well as an ob/gyn named Glauce (Leona Cavalli). Glauce helps Bruno keep the baby without having to go through the formal adoption process. He asks Glauce to change the hospital record to report that his wife gave birth to two children: a boy, who died, and a surviving girl. In love with Bruno, Glauce does what he asks, risking her career. A pact is made between Bruno, Ordália, and Glauce that this secret will never be revealed.

Second Phase

2013 – 12 years have passed, and Paloma, after ending her relationship with Ninho, apologizes to her parents and decides to follow a medical career working as a pediatrician at her father's hospital. She chooses pediatrics so that she can work with kids to compensate for the loss of her daughter, whom she believes is still alive somewhere. What Paloma does not realize is that her missing daughter is one of her most beloved patients: Paula (Klara Castanho), a very sweet and smart girl. Paloma has always had a very strong and affectionate bond with Paula, regardless of the fact that Paula is actually Paloma's daughter, and her closeness to Paula forces her to cross paths with Bruno, Paula's father. Paloma and Bruno, who had met years earlier when Paloma had admitted and nursed Paulinha unaware that she was really her daughter. The two separate, but before they realize, they are living together again. Paulinha especially approves of the relationship because she loves Paloma.

United by fate, Bruno, Paloma and Paula are happy until Ninho returns to Brazil determined to regain his relationship with Paloma. Fate holds moments of joy and sadness, revelations and dilemmas. At one point, Paula suffers a serious illness and blood tests reveal that Paloma is the only one who can donate an organ, due to the extremely close similarity of their blood. Suspicious, Paloma secretly orders a DNA test and discovers that Paula is her daughter. She becomes convinced that Bruno stole her daughter twelve years earlier, and their once-close relationship turns to hate. With Ninho, Paloma decides to take Bruno to court to regain custody of Paula. What Paloma cannot imagine is that the real culprit for all this is her brother, Felix, who now, in addition to Paloma, has another an obstacle in his path: Paulinha. Felix is aided by Glauce, who previously in love with Bruno, is happy to hurt Paloma in any way possible. Bruno hires lawyer Silvia (Carol Castro) to defend him.

In addition, the marriage of Cesar and Pilar is threatened by the arrival of the new medical secretary, Aline (Vanessa Giacomo), a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past who will do anything to seduce the head of the hospital and gain revenge on César, who she believes is responsible for the tragedies in her young life.

Side Plots

Also depicted is the gay couple, Niko (Thiago Fragoso)and Eron (Marcello Antony), who plan to have a child through artificial insemination. They ask Niko's close friend Amarilys (Danielle Winits) to be their surrogate, but she falls in love with Eron creating a love triangle that threatens to ruin Niko and Eron's relationship.

Cast

Actor	Character
Paolla Oliveira	Paloma Khoury[4][5]
Malvino Salvador	Bruno dos Santos Araújo[4][5]
Mateus Solano	Félix Khoury[4][5][6]
Antônio Fagundes	César Khoury[4][5]
Vanessa Giácomo	Aline Noronha[4][5][7]
Susana Vieira	Pilar Rodriguez Khoury[4][5]
Juliano Cazarré	Ninho (Joachim Roveri)[4][5]
Elizabeth Savalla	Márcia do Espírito Santo (Tetê Para-Choque Para-Lama)[4][5]
Tatá Werneck	Valdirene do Espírito Santo[4][5]
Thiago Fragoso	Niko (Nicolas Corona)[4][5]
Marcello Antony	Eron Lira Torgano[4][5]
Danielle Winits	Amarilys Baroni[4][5]
Anderson Di Rizzi	Carlito (Carlos José dos Santos Araújo)[4][5]
Eliane Giardini	Ordália Aparecida dos Santos Araújo[4][5]
Klara Castanho	Paulinha (Paula Sousa Araújo)[4][5]
José Wilker	Herbert Marques[5][8][9]
Bárbara Paz	Edith Sobral Khoury[4][5][10]
Ricardo Tozzi	Thales Brito[4][5]
Fernanda Machado	Leila Melo Rodriguez[4][5]
Marina Ruy Barbosa	Nicole Veiga de Assis[4][5][11]
Caio Castro	Michel Gusmão[4][5]
Maria Casadevall	Patrícia Mileto Donato[4][5]
Carol Castro	Sílvia Bueno Gusmão[12]
Márcio Garcia	Gustavo Donato (Guto)[4][5]
Ary Fontoura	Lutero Moura Cardoso[4][5]
Nathalia Timberg	Bernarda Campos Rodriguez[4][5]
Luís Mello	Atílio Pimenta Camargo / Alfredo Gentil[4][5]
Christiane Tricerri	Vega Azevedo Pimenta Camargo[4][5]
Françoise Forton	Gigi (Gisela Borba de Andrada Lemos)[4][5]
Fabiana Karla	Perséfone Fortino[4][5]
Rodrigo Andrade	Daniel Melo Rodriguez[4][5]
Bruna Linzmeyer	Linda Melo Rodriguez[4][5]
Rainer Cadete	Rafael Nero[4][5]
Bel Kutner	Joana Rangel[4][5]
Lucas Romano	Luciano dos Santos Araújo[4][5]
Paula Braun	Rebeca Schatman[4][5]
Mouhamed Harfouch	Pérsio Faruq Ahmad Khoury[4][5]
Kiko Pissolato	Maciel Pereira / Wilson[4][5]
Júlio Rocha	Jacques Sampaio[4][5]
Leona Cavalli	Glauce de Sá Benites[4][5]
Maria Maya	Alejandra Reys Moreno[4][5]
Thalles Cabral	Jonathan Sobral Khoury[4][5]
Rosamaria Murtinho	Tamara Gouveia Sobral[4][5]
Carolina Kasting	Gina (Regina Maria dos Santos Batista)[4][5]
Fúlvio Stefanini	Denizard Trajano Araújo[4][5]
Angela Rebello	Lídia Pinheiro[4][5]
Sophia Abrahão	Natasha Veiga de Assis[4][5][13]
Daniel Rocha	Rogério Machado[5][14]
Sandra Corveloni	Neide Melo Rodriguez[4][5]
Genézio de Barros	Amadeu Campos Rodriguez[4][5]
Vera Zimmerman	Simone Maia Benitez[4][5]
Neusa Maria Faro	Ciça (Maria Cecília Esteves)[4][5]
Emílio Orciollo Netto	Murilo de Andrada Lemos Corrêa[4][5]
Thavyne Ferrari	Sandra Alves Corrêa (Sandrinha)[4][5]
Cristina Mutarelli	Priscila Khoury[4][5]
Lúcia Veríssimo	Mariah Plattini[4][5]
Álamo Facó	Renan de Oliveira[4][5]
Renata Castro Barbosa	Marilda Fernandes[4][5]
Marcelo Schmidt	Valentin Reys Moreno[4][5]
Ângela Dip	Vivian Lobato[4][5]
Marcelo Argenta	Vanderlei Brandão[4][5]
Josie Antello	Adriana Nascimento[4][5]
Raquel Villar	Inaiá Seixas[4][5]
Camila Chiba	Noriko Akiyoshi[5]
Carol Rainato	Raquel Gonçalves[5]
Gabriel Chadan	Adoniran Lobo[4][5]
Pierre Baitelli	Laerte Torres[4][5]
Felipe Titto	Wagner Carvalho[4][5]
Vera Mancini	Maristela Freitas[4][5]
Míriam Lins	Verônica Rocha[4][5]
Marcelo Flores	Rinaldo Silva[4][5]
Ângela Rabelo	Eudóxia[4][5]
Carlos Machado	Ignácio[5][15]
Lucas Malvacini	Anjinho[4][5]
João Cunha	Jonas[4][5]
Kayky Gonzaga	Jayme[4][5]

Special appearances

• Neymar
• Alexandre Pato
• Luciano Huck
• Gustavo Borges
• Gusttavo Lima
• Vitor Belfort
• Valesca Popozuda
• Anitta
• Rita Cadillac

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated	Result
2013	Meus Prêmios Nick	Favorite Actress	Tatá Werneck	Nominated
		Favorite Actor	Mateus Solano	Won
		Favorite Character	Valdirene (Tatá Werneck)	Nominated
	Prêmio Extra de Televisão	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Won
		Best Lead Actress	Paolla Oliveira	Nominated
			Susana Vieira	Nominated
		Best Lead Actor	Antonio Fagundes	Nominated
			Malvino Salvador	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Won
			Fernanda Machado	Nominated
			Vanessa Giácomo	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Anderson Di Rizzi	Nominated
			Luis Mello	Nominated
		Best Female Revelation	Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
		Best Child Performance	Klara Castanho	Won
		Best Musical Theme	"Maravida" – (Daniel)	Nominated
			"Meiga e abusada" – (Anitta)	Nominated
			"Piradinha" – (Gabriel Valim)	Nominated
		Ídol teen	Caio Castro	Won
	Capricho Awards	Best Actress	Tatá Werneck	Won
			Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Marina Ruy Barbosa	Nominated
		Best Actor	Caio Castro	Won
		Best Kiss	Caio Castro and Maria Casadevall	Nominated
	Prêmio Jovem Brasileiro	Best Actor	Caio Castro	Won
		Best Actress	Marina Ruy Barbosa	Nominated
	Troféu APCA	Best Actor	Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Won
			Tatá Werneck	Nominated
	Retrospectiva UOL	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Nominated
		Best Actress	Susana Vieira	Nominated
		Best Actor	Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Villain	Vanessa Giácomo	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Couple	Tatá Werneck and Anderson Di Rizzi	Nominated
			Paolla Oliveira and Malvino Salvador	Nominated
			Caio Castro and Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Marina Ruy Barbosa and Ricardo Tozzi	Nominated
		Best Male/Female Revelation	Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
	Prêmio Quem de Televisão	Best Actor	Antonio Fagundes	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Actress	Susana Vieira	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Anderson Di Rizzi	Nominated
			Luís Mello	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Bárbara Paz	Nominated
			Elizabeth Savalla	Won
			Danielle Winits	Nominated
			Nathalia Timberg	Nominated
		Revelation	Felipe Titto	Nominated
			Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
		Best Author	Walcyr Carrasco	Won
	Melhores do Ano[16][17]	Best Actress	Paolla Oliveira	Won
			Susana Vieira	Nominated
			Vanessa Giácomo	Nominated
		Best Actor	Antônio Fagundes	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Won
			Fabiana Karla	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Caio Castro	Nominated
			Juliano Cazarré	Nominated
Thiago Fragoso			Won
Best Female Revelation		Maria Casadevall	Nominated
		Tatá Werneck	Won
Best Male Revelation		Anderson Di Rizzi	Won
Best Child Performance		Klara Castanho	Nominated
2014
	Shorty Awards	Actress	Sophia Abrahão	Nominated
	Troféu Imprensa	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Won
		Best Actor	Caio Castro	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Nominated
			Vanessa Giácomo	Won
		Revelation	Tatá Werneck	Won
	Troféu Internet	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Won
		Best Actor	Antonio Fagundes	Nominated
			Caio Castro	Nominated
			Malvino Salvador	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Nominated
			Paolla Oliveira	Nominated
			Susana Vieira	Nominated
			Vanessa Giácomo	Nominated
		Revelation	Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
	Prêmio Contigo! de TV	Best Telenovela of the Year	Walcyr Carrasco	Won
		Best Actor	Antônio Fagundes	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Actress	Paolla Oliveira	Nominated
			Vanessa Giácomo	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Anderson Di Rizzi	Nominated
			Thiago Fragoso	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Bruna Linzmeyer	Nominated
			Elizabeth Savalla	Won
		Revelation of TV	Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
		Best Child Actress	Klara Castanho	Nominated
		Best Author	Walcyr Carrasco	Nominated
		Best Director	Wolf Maya and Mauro Mendonça Filho	Nominated

International Broadcasting

Country	Channel	Title	Premiere	End	Weekly Schedule	Hour
	Rede Globo	Amor à Vida	20 May 2013	31 January 2014	Monday to Saturday	21:15
	SIC	Amor à Vida	2 September 2013	24 October 2014	Monday to Friday	22:45
	Unitel	Rastros de Mentiras	2 June 2014	present	Monday to Friday	21:001
	Ecuavisa	Rastros de Mentiras	1 July 2014	present	Monday to Friday	20:45
	Canal 13	Rastros de Menitras	3 July 2014	6 January 2015	Monday to Friday2	17:303
	Teledoce	Rastros de Mentiras	28 July 2014	present	Monday to Thursday	21:306
	Antena Latina	Rastros de Mentiras	28 August 2014	present	Monday to Friday	22:00
	iTVN	Rzeka Klamstw	3 September 2014	present	Monday to Friday	16:00
	RCN	Rastros de Mentiras	17 September 2014	present	Monday to Friday	20:004
	Azteca Trece	Rastros de Mentiras	22 September 2014	present	Monday to Friday	21:005
	MundoFox	Rastros de Mentiras	30 September 2014	present	Monday to Friday	21:00
	MundoFox	Rastros de Mentiras	30 September 2014	present	Monday to Friday	21:00
	ATV	Rastros de Mentiras	30 November 2014	present	Monday to Friday	22:007
	Armenia 1	Կյանքը սեր է	17 November 2014	present	Monday to Friday	19:40
	TCV	Amor à Vida	20 November 2014	present	Monday to Saturday	21:00
	Televicentro	Rastros de Mentiras	1 December 2014	present	Monday to Friday	20:00
	Telefe	Rastros de Mentiras	5 January 2015	present	Monday to Friday	23:008
	OMNI	Amor à Vida	19 January 2015	present	Monday to Friday	16:00
	Acasă	Dragoste de viaţă	6 February 2015	present	Monday to Friday	22:00
	STV	Amor à Vida	2 March 2015	present	Monday to Saturday	21:00
	Telenovela	거짓말	11 March 2015	present	Wednesday	16:459
	Teletica	Rastros de Mentiras	6 April 2015		Monday to Friday	13:30
	Viva	שובל של שקרים	12 April 2015		Sunday to Thursday	20:50
	Telemetro	Rastros de Mentiras	Coming Soon

Notes

Soundtrack

1. "Piradinha" – Gabriel Valim
2. "Pontes Indestrutíveis – Charlie Brown Jr.
3. "As Mina Pira na Balada" – Gusttavo Lima
4. "Meiga e Abusada" – Anitta
5. "As Curvas da Estrada de Santos" – Lulu Santos feat. Késia Estácio
6. "Trem das Onze" – Zeca Pagodinho
7. "O Amor em Paz" – Ivete Sangalo
8. "Um Ser Amor" – Paula Fernandes
9. "Fofinha Delícia" – Sorriso Maroto
10. "Amor, Amor" – Wanessa
11. "Combustível" – Ana Carolina
12. "Você Não Poderia Surgir Agora" – Roberta Sá
13. "Caio no Suingue" – Pedro Luis e a Parede
14. "Na Selva de Pedra" – Conexão Baixada
15. "Maravida" – Daniel
16. "Amor à Vida" – Nando Reis
17. "Dançando na Garoa" – Jammil
18. "Sambas Urbanos" – Rodrigo Pita

Ratings

In its pilot chapter, the novel registered 35 rating points in São Paulo,^[18] equivalent to 2,16 million households.^[19] In Florianópolis, it was estimated that about 3,5 million viewers have watched the pilot of the novel, with 67% audience share, recording 42.02 points in IBOPE.^[20]

It became the most watched program of Brazilian television in season 2013–14 in the chapter on 27 January 2014, which recorded 49.4 points in the National IBOPE,^[21] which equates to 10.7 million homes and approximately 31.6 million viewers.^[22]

Notes

References

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