Acting
A dark tale about a drug addict who internalizes his life through a paranoid trip. Slowly he makes sense of his past, and spares no one in the process.
Os Ossos do Barão is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from April 28 to September 8, 1997. It is an adaptation of Jorge Andrade's 1963 play of the same name, adapted for television by Walter George Durst, with collaboration from Duca Rachid, Mário Teixeira, and Marcos Lazarini. The telenovela stars Ana Paula Arósio, Tarcísio Filho, Juca de Oliveira, Othon Bastos, and Leonardo Villar. Set in São Paulo in 1948, the story follows Egisto Ghirotto, the wealthy son of Italian immigrants who dreams of gaining social prestige by marrying his son, Martino, to Isabel, the great-granddaughter of the late Baron of Jaraguá. Their romance sparks a bitter conflict between a rising immigrant family and a declining aristocratic dynasty, exposing themes of class, ambition, tradition, and the social transformation of Brazil.
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.
Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
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Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
Julio is a peaceful, uptight dentist who planned his life 80 years in advance. Suddenly dumped by his girlfriend, he also finds out he is the son of a womanizer, a popular singer of the 1970s, and the brother of an intense gay musician, both of whom he never knew—until now.
Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become.
Nenê has been married to Geralda for 30 years. One Sunday afternoon, as usual, he goes to a samba to meet his friends. When he comes home, he finds a surprise. His wife was taken to the hospital. Without letting the ball drop, he finds a solution to be near his beloved wife.
