Crashing Into the Future

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.

Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, a sorcerer and scientist, and his great-aunt Morgana, a 6,000-year-old witch. The three of them live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. Apprentice sorcerer, Nino has never attended a school, because of the unusual age of 300 years. His parents left him living with Victor and Morgan, because they needed to travel on an expedition into outer space, taking their two younger brothers. In spite of having animal and supernatural friends in the Castle, Nino, feeling lack of friends like him, decides to do a spell he learned with his Uncle Victor, and ended up bringing to the Castle, three children who had just left school. Free of loneliness, Nino receives the visit of the three daily.

A Padroeira was a Brazilian soap opera produced and displayed at the time of 18 hours by Rede Globo, between June 18, 2001 and February 23, 2002, and presented in 215 chapters. It was written by Walcyr Carrasco collaboration with Duca Rachid and directed by Walter Avancini, and had Deborah Secco, Luigi Baricelli, Elizabeth Savalla and Maurício Mattar in leading roles.

Stone Circle takes place in São Paulo in 1958, and tells the story of a love triangle between Natércio (Daniel Dantas), Laura (Ana Paula Arósio) and Daniel (Marcello Antony). Laura is married to Natércio and has two daughters with him: Bruna (Anna Sophia Folch) and Otávia (Ariela Massotti). Emotionally unstable, sensitive, fragile and delicate, she has frequent crises and is treated by Dr. Daniel, because who ends up falling in love. This leads to jealousy in the husband, who, despite loving his wife very much, is controlling and ambitious. Laura has a daughter with doctor Daniel, Virginia (Tammy Di Calafiori), who is raised by her mother with the lawyer. The Silva Prado mansion, where Natércio and Laura live, is located in the upper-middle-class Jardim Europa neighborhood and is looked after by the housekeeper Frau Herta (Ana Beatriz Nogueira), who is secretly in love with her boss and tries to destroy everything she does well. to Laura.

A spoiled feminist, daughter of a rich father, even though she doesn't admit it, falls in love with a rustic farmer whom she marries.

Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded "J" stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors of concentration camps. When newly appointed diplomat, João Guimarães Rosa, arrives in Hamburg, the two fall madly in love. Aracy would later be honored by the Yad Vashem with the Righteous Among the Nations Award. João would be known as the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century.

An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.

The story revolves around Leal, an executive who built the largest smart building in the city. The soap opera discusses the relationship between man and technology.