Belmonte is a Portuguese telenovela broadcast and produced by TVI. It was written by

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and adaptaded from the Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte. The telenovela premiered on September 22, 2013 and its last episode aired on September 5, 2014, totaling a number of 259 episodes. It was broadcast in the primetime at 9pm (UTC) and then switched to the 11pm (UTC) slot. Some of the first scenes were recorded in Brazil, but the telenovela was mainly recorded in Portugal, in the region of

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. It is the 5th Portuguese telenovela (the 3rd from TVI) nominated for Best telenovela in the 2014 Emmy International.

Plot

In the Municipality of Estremoz, in the

, five children, adopted by the Alentejo patriarch Emílio Belmonte ( António Capelo), manage a business group named ''Belmonte'', owner of companies in the business of winemaking, oils, marble exploration, hunting tourism, and financial investments and real estate. The Belmonte family is linked to the ancient history of the region, but Emílio, the last descendant of the family, married Clarisse, a woman who could not have children and, as such, to the survival of the name, the couple had to adopt children. Each of the four older brothers, João ( Filipe Duarte), José (

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), Pedro ( Diogo Amaral) and Carlos (

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), is responsible, respectively, for one of the business areas, while Lucas ( Lourenço Ortigão), the youngest, was studying photography in London. Business, despite the crisis, is stable and family harmony is evident, continuing the five brothers to live together in the family's homestead. While in the

are made some preparations for the engagement between João and Julieta ( Carla Galvão) - daughter of another older family from the region, but bankrupt, the Milheiro family - in Brazil, Emílio is with Sofia ( Manuela Couto) and her daughter, Paula ( Graziella Schmitt), revealing that Emílio has another family. Sofia was Emílio's lover and became pregnant at the time ''Clarisse'' was ill with terminal cancer. Because Sofia refused to abort, Emílio paid her to move to Brazil where she gave birth to Paula, who nobody ever told was the daughter of an extramarital relationship growing with the false story that the father spends most of his time in Portugal because of business, in hope to one day sell it to reform in Brazil and stay with his Brazilian family. After a day of happiness «in family», on his farm in the Pantanal ( Brazil), Emílio returns to Portugal, leaving Paula in tears, as always, in time to say goodbye. What she doesn't know is that she is saying goodbye to her father forever. On the way to the airport, Emílio sees what appears to be a road accident and decides to stop to help. But what appeared to be an accident is actually a fatal ambush for Emílio planned by his son Carlos.

Cast

Main

* Filipe Duarte - ''João Belmonte'' * Graziella Schmitt - ''Paula Belmonte'' *

- ''José Belmonte'' *

- ''Carlos Belmonte'' * Diogo Amaral - ''Pedro Belmonte'' * Lourenço Ortigão - ''Lucas Belmonte'' * Manuela Couto - ''Sofia Caneira/Belmonte''

Secondary

* Carla Galvão - ''Julieta Milheiro'' * Joana Solnado - ''Inês Belmonte'' *

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- ''Filomena Guerreiro'' *

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- ''Rafael Guerreiro '' * Rita Calçada Bastos - ''Ana Craft '' *

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- ''Henrique Craft '' *

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- ''Hugo Queirós'' * Luísa Cruz - ''Susana Marques'' ''«1st sergeant»'' * Sara Matos - ''Marta Nogueira'' * Sílvia Rizzo - ''Carol Molina'' * Laura Galvão - ''Joana Brito'' * Almeno Gonçalves - ''Gustavo Castelo'' * Paulo Pires - ''Padre Artur Ribas'' * Bruna Quintas - ''Rosário Milheiro'' *

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- ''Anabela Milheiro'' * José Wallenstein - ''Miguel Milheiro'' * Sabri Lucas - ''Flip'' * Sara Prata - ''Íris'' * Norman McCallum - ''Alistair Conrad'' * Sofia Grillo - ''Beatriz Figueira'' * Adriano Carvalho - ''Joaquim Figueira'' * Maria de Sousa - ''Luísa Ferreira'' * António Melo - ''Fernando Ferreira'' *

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- ''Sónia''

Special Participation

* Estrela Novais - ''D. Maria''

Children

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- ''António Figueira'' *Manuel Custódia - ''Ivo Craft'' * Maria Carolina - ''Leonor Guerreiro''

Recurring

* António Capelo - ''Emílio Belmonte'' * Sofia Ribeiro - ''Laura Pires''

Awards

References

{{reflist Portuguese telenovelas Televisão Independente telenovelas 2013 Portuguese television series debuts 2014 Portuguese television series endings 2013 telenovelas Portuguese-language telenovelas