Força de um Desejo

Força de um Desejo
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Gilberto Braga Alcides Nogueira
Starring	Malu Mader Fábio Assunção Reginaldo Faria Paulo Betti Cláudia Abreu Marcelo Serrado Nathália Timberg Lavínia Vlasak Selton Mello Denise Del Vecchio Louise Cardoso Daniel Dantas Isabel Fillardis Cláudio Corrêa e Castro Júlia Feldens André Barros
Opening theme	"Tema de Ana"
Composer	Jaques Morelenbaum
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language	Portuguese
No. of episodes	227
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	Rede Globo
Release	May 10, 1999 – January 29, 2000

Força de um Desejo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo, and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 227 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira and Sérgio Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo.

Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis, Louise Cardoso, Reginaldo Faria, Denise Del Vecchio and Paulo Betti in leading roles.

Synopsis

The setting is Paraíba Valley, Rio de Janeiro, in the nineteenth century. Higino Ventura (Paulo Betti) is a former peddler who enriched with shady dealings and bought Hill Top Farm in the town of Sant'Anna, to approach his old flame, Helen (Sonia Braga), a resident of the farm neighbor, Golden Green, now married to the powerful Baron Henry de Sampaio Sobral (Reginaldo Faria). Ventura is willing to do anything to win back Helen, including buying Golden Green and obtaining a noble title. But Helena, though disregarding him for the love of her husband, suffers at the hands of the Baron, who knows that Abelard (Selton Mello), who raised him as his son is actually the son of Ventura.

The couple's legitimate son, Ignatius (Fábio Assunção), does not conform to the cruel treatment that his father gives his mother and decides to leave the farm. At Rio de Janeiro, he meets Esther Ramos Delamare (Malu Mader), a beautiful courtesan, owner of the most famous saloon of the Court. They fall in love and live an intense romance, and Esther decides to leave her kind of life just to live with Ignatius. However, the unexpected death of his mother makes Ignatius return to the farm to help his father and brother. Moreover, he splits with Esther because of intrigues by his grandmother, Idalina Menezes Albuquerque Silveira (Nathália Timberg), who, though not suspect Esther is a courtesan, fears her grandson's involvement with a girl of lower social class. To destroy the romance, Idalina falsifies his grandson's signature and sends Esther a letter, convincing her that Ignatius does not love her anymore.

Baron Sobral, devastated by the death of Helena and the feelings of guilt that torment him because he gave his wife a miserable life, decides to start his life and makes a long trip to the Court. After meeting Esther, he falls in love without knowing she is the woman who is loved by his son. He convinces her that it's not worth destroying her life by the disillusion that she is suffering, and willing to give her a chance to have a new life, asks her to marry him. After the marriage is sanctified, Sobral and Esther go to Golden Green, and getting there, Esther has over a sad surprise to come face to face with Ignatius; victims of a trap destination, now they will live on the same farm, without the Baron suspect that his new wife is the same woman his son had fallen in love.

Esther and Ignatius are avoided, but eventually end up clarifying the misunderstanding that separated them. They decide tell Sobral the truth, but end up not doing it to discover that the Baron is ill and, more than ever, needs the help of his family. Dissatisfied with the situation and knowing that Golden Green is facing financial difficulties, Ignatius married Alice (Lavinia Vlasak), the daughter of Higino Ventura and his wife, dazzled Barbara (Denise Del Vecchio), who only thinks of becoming a noble.

Meanwhile, Ventura struggle to get the barony and buy Golden Green, in order to humiliate the baron. He becomes obsessed with Olivia (Claudia Abreu), a young woman who arrives to the village of Sant'Anna. Snubbed by the girl, he tries to find out who she is and he discovers that she is a white slave who fled from another village and is being sought by the police. Olivia born of the relationship between a wealthy landowner and a slave already quite clear, as is described in the plot. Her father recognized her as a daughter, and even his family did not accept such situation, he gave him the name of Anna Tambellini, educated her and wrote her letter of manumission. But the big mistake of the man was not register officially the letter. When he died, his eldest daughter, making envy, tore the letter of manumission and wanted to make Anna a slave. For this reason the girl ran away and changed her name to Olivia. However, Ventura, finding Olivia's sister and become aware of the whole story, decides to deliver her, and then buying her to use as a sex slave. She then begins to live in a hell, unable to get rid from the clutches of her cruel owner, even aided by her boyfriend, the young doctor Mariano Xavier (Marcelo Serrado), and their friends, among them Ignatius and Esther.

But one fact undermines the entire village of Sant'Anna: Baron Henry Sobral is murdered during the feast of betrothal between Abelard and sweet Juliana (Julia Feldens), at the same night which Ignatius and Esther flee to live together after knowing about the farce of Sobral's disease - fear of losing his wife, the Baron made the disease up as a way to prevent Esther leave, keeping her well, by his side. Local police mobilized to arrest Ignatius, the prime suspect in the death of Baron. Then begins a race against time to Ignatius did not pay for the crime he did not commit, while those who believe it try to uncover the identity of the real killer.

Cast

Actor	Character
Malu Mader	Baronesa Ester de Sampaio Sobral
Fábio Assunção	Inácio Sobral
Cláudia Abreu	Olívia Xavier
Reginaldo Faria	Barão Henrique Sobral
Paulo Betti	Higino Ventura
Nathália Timberg	Idalina Menezes de Albuquerque Silveira
Lavínia Vlasak	Alice Ventura
Selton Mello	Abelardo Sobral
Denise Del Vecchio	Bárbara Ventura
Marcelo Serrado	Mariano Xavier
Isabel Fillardis	Luzia
Louise Cardoso	Guiomar Pereira da Silva
Cláudio Corrêa e Castro	Leopoldo Silveira
Daniel Dantas	Bartolomeu Xavier
Júlia Feldens	Juliana Xavier
André Barros	Trajano Cantuária
José Lewgoy	Felício Cantuária
Chico Diaz	Clemente
Chica Xavier	Rosália
Antônio Grassi	Vitório
Dira Paes	Palmira
Sérgio Menezes	Jesus
Ana Carbatti	Zulmira
Nelson Dantas	Dr. Xavier
Rosita Tomaz Lopes	Fabíola Xavier
Alexandre Moreno	Cristóvão
Luís Magnelli	Gaspar

Cameo

Cast in alphabetical order

Actor	Character
Abrahão Farc	Padre Olinto
André Valli	Lourival
Ângelo Paes Leme	Rodrigo (Alice's suitor)
Antônio Fragoso	Isidoro
Bruno Garcia	Lauro (fake husband of Olívia)
Carlos Alberto	judge
Carlos Eduardo Dolabella	Comendador Queiroz
Carlos Gregório	Barcelos
Carlos Machado	Estácio
Cláudio Mamberti	Domingos de Castro Magalhães
Clemente Viscaíno	Inspector Bustamante
Cosme dos Santos	Quirino
David Herman	Stanley
Dary Reis	Albano
Delma Silva	Diva
Elaine Mickely	Hermínia Montez (famous courtesan)
Eliana Guttman	Laura (true mother of Alice)
Élida Muniz	Marta
Fábio Sabag	Breno Rangel
Flávio Galvão	Nereu
Giovanna Antonelli	Violeta (courtesan)
Glória Portella	Florinda (courtesan)
Helder Agostini	Manoel (false son of Olívia)
Helena Fernandes	Srtª. Clara Toledo de Mendonça
Henrique César	Marquês de Boaventura
Henrique Taxman	Dr. Humberto (young doctor friend of Mariano)
Jayme Periard	Padre Osvaldo
José Augusto Branco	Epaminondas (owner of a bakery in court)
José de Abreu	Pereira
Júlio Braga	sexton
Kadu Karneiro	Pedro
Lineu Dias	Luciano (auctioneer of slaves)
Lucas Bonel	Otavinho Ventura Sobral (baby)
Luciana Azevedo	Ivete
Luiz Guilherme	Carrazedo
Marcelo Várzea	Ubaldo
Márcia Del Anillo	Noêmia (courtesan)
Marco Ricca	Conde Pedro Afonso de Andrade Aguiar
Mariana Ximenes	Ângela
Mário Lago	Dr. Teodoro (fake doctor addicted to gambling)
Murilo Rosa	Eugênio (friend of Inácio in the Court)
Neuza Amaral	Anita (director of the hospital where he was born Alice)
Nill Marcondes	Zelito
Otávio Augusto	Dr. Eurico Navarro
Otávio Müller	Ferdinando (safecracker, Guiomar friend)
Othon Bastos	promoter
Paulo Reis	Shepherd (slave)
Raniere Gonzalez	Reinaldo
Ronnie Marruda	Raimundo
Samuel Mello	Dário
Sônia Braga	Baronesa Helena Sobral
Sônia Siqueira	Hortência
Stepan Nercessian	Ernani Corrêa (forger)
Thereza Piffer	Dora Tambellini (former mistress and sister Olívia)
Victor Fasano	Nicolau Prado
Vinícius Marques	Valdir
Viviane Victorette	Clarissa (courtesan)
Xando Graça	auctioneer of slaves
Yaçanã Martins	Socorro

External links

• Força de um Desejo at IMDb