''Éramos Seis'' (English: ''Once We Were Six'') is a Brazilian
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
produced and broadcast by
TV Globo
TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Gr ...
. It premiered on 30 September 2019, replacing ''
Órfãos da Terra
''Órfãos da Terra'' (English: ''Orphans of a Nation'') is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 2 April 2019, replacing '' Espelho da Vida'', and ended on 27 September 2019, being replaced by '' Éramos Seis ...
'', and ended on 27 March 2020. It is based on the book of the same name written by
. The series is adapted by Ângela Chaves, with the collaboration of Bernardo Guilherme, Daisy Chaves and Juliana Peres.
It stars
Glória Pires
Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais (; born 23 August 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in TV Globo telenovelas such as '' Dancin' Days'', ''Vale Tudo'', ''Mulheres de Areia'' and ''O Rei do Gado''. She is also know ...
,
Nicolas Prattes
Nicolas Prattes Bittencourt Pires (born 4 May 1997) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
He started his acting career at the age of 10. At the age of 13 he played small roles in theatrical performances in Rio de Janeiro. He also studied at the New York ...
,
Danilo Mesquita
Danilo Mesquita Santos de Oliveira (born 26 February 1992), is a Brazilian actor and singer.
Career
Before becoming an actor, he dedicated himself for seven years to football. At the age of 18, he tried modeling, but he became an actor at the ...
Cássio Gabus Mendes
Cássio Gabus Mendes (born 29 August 1961) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
Debuted on TV in the telenovela ''Elas por Elas'', in 1982, and participated in the telenovelas ''Ti Ti Ti'', '' Vale Tudo'', ''Tieta'' and ''A Indomada'', and others. H ...
in the main roles.
Plot
The story tells the life of a middle-class family from
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...
between the 1920s and 1940s. Lola (
Glória Pires
Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais (; born 23 August 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in TV Globo telenovelas such as '' Dancin' Days'', ''Vale Tudo'', ''Mulheres de Areia'' and ''O Rei do Gado''. She is also know ...
Danilo Mesquita
Danilo Mesquita Santos de Oliveira (born 26 February 1992), is a Brazilian actor and singer.
Career
Before becoming an actor, he dedicated himself for seven years to football. At the age of 18, he tried modeling, but he became an actor at the ...
) is the pride of the family, but has a troubled romance with Inês (Carol Macedo), whose mother is against the relationship. Alfredo (
Nicolas Prattes
Nicolas Prattes Bittencourt Pires (born 4 May 1997) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
He started his acting career at the age of 10. At the age of 13 he played small roles in theatrical performances in Rio de Janeiro. He also studied at the New York ...
) lives in conflict with his parents for his rebellious and riotous way, in addition to hating his older brother out of jealousy. The spoiled Isabel (
Werner Schünemann
Werner Eduardo Schünemann (born February 21, 1959) is a Brazilian actor, director, and screenwriter.
Biography
Schünemann was born in Porto Alegre, the grandson of Germans. He was raised near Novo Hamburgo and began acting at age 15. Werner ...
), his father's boss. After her husband's premature death, Lola starts selling homemade sweets to support her family.
Lola's paternal aunt, EmÃlia ( Susana Vieira), is a bitter and millionaire widow who has never helped her family and lives taking care of her daughter, Justina (Julia Stockler), who has mental problems and cannot leave the house for this reason. Emilia sent her younger daughter, Adelaide ( Joana de Verona), to Switzerland as a child, but she returns as an adult and conflicts with her mother over feminist ideas and the insistence that her sister should not be deprived of social life, in addition to being sexually open-minded and gets involved with her cousin Alfredo. The rest of Lola's family lives in
Itapetininga
Itapetininga is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 165,526 (2020 est.) in an area of 1790 km2. The name comes from a Tupi-Guarani language, meaning "dry stone".Simone Spoladore) and Olga (
Maria Eduarda de Carvalho
Maria Eduarda de Carvalho (born 11 March 1983) is a Brazilian actress and writer.
). Clotilde lives unhappily away from Almeida (Ricardo Pereira), with whom she broke up after discovering that he was divorced, for fear of judgment, although she hopes to take the courage to live love. Olga dreamed of becoming a member of high society, but she decided to marry her great love, Zeca (Eduardo Sterblitch), even though he is a humble pharmacist, articulating for her aunt EmÃlia to hire him to take care of her business, thus being well paid and giving herself a good life.
Shirley (Barbara Reis) has always believed that she was abandoned while pregnant in her teens by João Aranha (
Caco Ciocler
Carlos Alberto "Caco" Ciocler (born 27 September 1971) is a Brazilian actor and director.
Biography
Ciocler was born in São Paulo, in an upper-middle-class family, he moved to the performing arts world when he was about to graduate in engineer ...
), unaware that everything was a plan by his mother, and when she reunites with him more than ten years later, she discovers the truth. However, she is already married to Afonso (
Cássio Gabus Mendes
Cássio Gabus Mendes (born 29 August 1961) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
Debuted on TV in the telenovela ''Elas por Elas'', in 1982, and participated in the telenovelas ''Ti Ti Ti'', '' Vale Tudo'', ''Tieta'' and ''A Indomada'', and others. H ...
), who cares for their daughter, Inês, causing her to be torn between the love of the two, since Aranha starts to show himself as a possessive and different man from youth. Lola's best friend is the gossip Genu (Kelzy Ecard), married to the submissive Virgulino (Kiko Mascarenhas), with whom she has two children: Lili and Lúcio (Jhona Burjack), in love with Isabel.
Cast
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Glória Pires
Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais (; born 23 August 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in TV Globo telenovelas such as '' Dancin' Days'', ''Vale Tudo'', ''Mulheres de Areia'' and ''O Rei do Gado''. She is also know ...
as Eleonora "Lola" Amaral de Lemos
*
Danilo Mesquita
Danilo Mesquita Santos de Oliveira (born 26 February 1992), is a Brazilian actor and singer.
Career
Before becoming an actor, he dedicated himself for seven years to football. At the age of 18, he tried modeling, but he became an actor at the ...
as Carlos AbÃlio de Lemos
*
Nicolas Prattes
Nicolas Prattes Bittencourt Pires (born 4 May 1997) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
He started his acting career at the age of 10. At the age of 13 he played small roles in theatrical performances in Rio de Janeiro. He also studied at the New York ...
Cássio Gabus Mendes
Cássio Gabus Mendes (born 29 August 1961) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
Debuted on TV in the telenovela ''Elas por Elas'', in 1982, and participated in the telenovelas ''Ti Ti Ti'', '' Vale Tudo'', ''Tieta'' and ''A Indomada'', and others. H ...
as Afonso dos Santos Oliveira
* Simone Spoladore as Clotilde Amaral
* Ricardo Pereira as Argemiro de Almeida
* Joana de Verona as Adelaide Amaral Sampaio
* Carol Macedo as Inês Ferreira dos Santos
* Paulo Rocha as FelÃcio de Souza
* Rayssa Bratillieri as Soraia Assad
* Susana Vieira as EmÃlia Amaral Sampaio
*
Maria Eduarda de Carvalho
Maria Eduarda de Carvalho (born 11 March 1983) is a Brazilian actress and writer.
Werner Schünemann
Werner Eduardo Schünemann (born February 21, 1959) is a Brazilian actor, director, and screenwriter.
Biography
Schünemann was born in Porto Alegre, the grandson of Germans. He was raised near Novo Hamburgo and began acting at age 15. Werner ...
Antônio Calloni
EgÃzio Antônio Calloni (born 6 December 1961, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actor, best known for '' Os Dias Eram Assim'' (2017), ''Dois Irmãos'' (2017), and ''Brazilian Western
''Brazilian Western'' ( pt, Faroeste Caboclo) is a 2013 Brazilia ...
as Júlio AbÃlio de Lemos
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Caco Ciocler
Carlos Alberto "Caco" Ciocler (born 27 September 1971) is a Brazilian actor and director.
Biography
Ciocler was born in São Paulo, in an upper-middle-class family, he moved to the performing arts world when he was about to graduate in engineer ...
as João Aranha
*
Luciana Braga
Luciana Braga Ribeiro Ramos (born 16 December 1962) is a Brazilian actress.
Career
She made his television debut in 1986, in the soap opera ''Sinhá Moça''.
She also appeared in the Rede Manchete in the soap operas ''Helena'', 1987, in which ...
as Zulmira de Souza
*
Irene Ravache
Irene Yolanda Ravache Paes de Melo (born 6 August 1944) is a Brazilian film, stage, and television actress. In 2008, she was nominated for an International Emmy Award for her role in ''Eterna Magia''.
Personal life
Ravache is married to journal ...
Daniel Boaventura
Daniel Boaventura is a Brazilian actor and singer.
Popular worldwide, Boaventura has held the lead roles in the musicals ''Peter Pan'', ''My Fair Lady'', ''Evita'', and ''Chicago'' — as well as the role of patriarch, Gomez Addams, in ...
''Éramos Seis Vol. 1'' is the first soundtrack of the telenovela, released on 6 December 2019 by
Som Livre
Som Livre (Portuguese for "''Free Sound''") is a Brazilian record company that was founded in 1969 in order to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks. It later expanded to recording studio albums.
Today, Som Livre is Brazil's largest domestic l ...
.
Volume 2
''Éramos Seis Vol. 2'' is the second soundtrack of the telenovela, released on 24 January 2020 by
Som Livre
Som Livre (Portuguese for "''Free Sound''") is a Brazilian record company that was founded in 1969 in order to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks. It later expanded to recording studio albums.
Today, Som Livre is Brazil's largest domestic l ...