Força de um Desejo
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.
The couple's legitimate son, Inácio (Fábio Assunção), despises the cruel treatment that his father reserves to his mother and decides to leave the household.
After meeting Ester at her famous saloon in Rio de Janeiro, he falls in love with her without knowing the man who left her heartbroken is his son, Inácio.
Her father recognized her as his daughter, and despite his family did not accept such a situation, he named her Ana Tambellini, educated her and wrote her a carta de libertad, a letter of manumission to acknowledge she was born free.
Olivia goes through Hell, unable to escape the clutches of her cruel owner despite the attempts of her boyfriend, the young doctor Mariano Xavier (Marcelo Serrado), and those of their friends Inácio and Ester, to release her from slavery.
The town of Sant'Anna is struck by tragedy: Baron Henrique Sobral is murdered during the engagement party of Abelardo and Juliana Xavier (Julia Feldens).
The original plot was written by Alcides Nogueira in 1988, with the title of Amor perfeito, and was almost broadcast on Rede Globo as a daytime soap opera.
Inspired by three novels by Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay – A Retirada da Laguna, Inocência and A Mocidade de Trajano– and set in the second half of the 19th century, the plot also had as a backdrop important events in the history of Brazil, such as the Paraguayan War and the abolitionist movement.
A two-week workshop was held with the actors of the telenovela, including four courses taught by university professors, which had as their themes the Empire of Brazil, the daily life of the coffee and sugar fazendas, and Romanticism.
It included thick sideburns and moustaches as well as starched shirts and collars, in the case of the men, and appliques at the waist, heavy clothing, and pastel-toned makeup for the women.
Some actors and actresses increased the length of their hair with extensions, such as Dira Paes, Daniel Dantas, Chico Díaz and Malu Mader, who also used false eyelashes.
The noble characters' features were inspired by those of films such as Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, a 1963 classic of Italian cinema based on the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), which served as a model for the theme of Romanticism in the telenovela.
