''Kubanacan'' 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

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. It premiered on 5 May 2003, replacing ''

O Beijo do Vampiro ''O Beijo do Vampiro'' (''A Vampire's Kiss'') is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from August 26, 2002 to May 3, 2003, totaling 215 chapters, substituting ''Desejos de Mulher'' and preceding '' Kubanacan''. Plot In ...

'', and ended on 24 January 2004, replaced by ''

Da Cor do Pecado ''Da Cor do Pecado'' (English title: ''Shades of Sin'') is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo in the traditional 7pm timeslot between 26 January and 28 August 2004 with a total of 185 episodes, replacing '' Kubanacan'' and ...

''. The telenovela is written by Carlos Lombardi, with the collaboration of Emanoel Jacobina, Margareth Boury, Tiago Santiago, and Vinícius Vianna. It stars

Marcos Pasquim Marcos Pasquim (born June 14, 1969 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actor who has been appeared on both television and film. TV filmography * 2012 - ''Cheias de Charme''.... Gilson * 2011 - '' Morde & Assopra''.... Abner * 2009 - ''Caras & Bocas'' ...

Adriana Esteves Adriana, also spelled Adrianna, is a Latin name and feminine form of Adrian. It originates from present day Italy. Translations *Arabic: أدريان * Belorussian: Адрыяна (Adryjana) *Bulgarian: Адриана (Adriana) *Chinese Simplifi ...

Danielle Winits Danielle Winitskowski de Azevedo,
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Vladimir Brichta Paulo Vladimir Brichta (born 22 March 1976) is a Brazilian actor. Biography Paulo Vladimir Brichta was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais but despite being born in Minas Gerais, he considers himself "an authentic Bahian", since he moved with hi ...

Carolina Ferraz Maria Carolina Álvares Ferraz (born January 25, 1968) is a Brazilian actress, TV host, and former model. TV roles * 2016 - ''Haja Coração'' as Penélope Bacellar Vélazquez * 2013 - ''Além do Horizonte'' as Tereza * 2012 - '' Avenida Brasi ...

Humberto Martins Humberto Martins Duarte (born 14 April 1961) is a Brazilian actor. Filmography Television References External links

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, Betty Lago, and

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 ...

Plot

The story begins in 1951 in Kubanacan, a small Caribbean island country known as a "banana republic", both for its prime export and its economic problems. After the death of the current president, General Carlos Camacho (Humberto Martins) imposes a coup d'état and establishes a dictatorial regime. In addition, the new ruler marries the wife of her predecessor, Mercedes (Betty Lago), first lady loved by the people for her help to the poor and with whom she had an affair for years. In the village of Santiago, a mysterious man falls from the sky during a storm with a chest shot, being saved by the fishermen and cared for by Marisol (Danielle Winits). Without memory, Esteban (Marcos Pasquim) falls in love with the girl and disputes his heart with her husband, Enrico (Vladimir Brichta), who leaves and lets his ex-wife live with the new love, who takes over her two children. Seven years later, in 1958, Marisol meets Camacho, who convinces her to leave and live as his mistress, claiming she would never get out of poverty in the village. Esteban believes his wife died on the high seas as a result of third parties and leaves for La Bendita to take revenge, which brings out a double personality, the violent evil character Dark Esteban. In the capital he bumps into Enrico again, now married to Lola (Adriana Esteves), who ironically also falls in love with the amnesiac. Enrico's real lover is Rubi (Carolina Ferraz), Lola's sister, who dreams of joining the army and whom men have never looked for in the absence of vanity, since she dresses like a man and lives dirty for working as a man. In the city the sons of Mercedes still live there - Guillermo (Daniel Del Sarto), who always tries to unmask his stepfather's betrayals, and Mercedita (Tatyane Goulart) a caricature of his mother - besides Camacho's only son, Carlito (Iran Malfitano), who works all night and has several cases, just like his father. He dates the futile Consuelo (Fernanda de Freitas) and is loved by the sweet Soledad (Rafaela Mandelli), who never received a look from the boy for being shy and virginal, but sends him anonymous letters, arousing his passion, which he longs to know. There is also Dagoberto (Bruno Garcia), the president's secretary who becomes indirectly responsible for government decisions, and Johnny (Daniel Boaventura), a US-raised playboy who becomes Esteban's close friend. Camacho hires Adriano, a Miami attorney who is identical to Esteban and who eventually takes over the presidency, which leads to confusion. In addition, General Alejandro (Werner Schünemann), a former exiled president on the island of La Platina, returns to take revenge on Camacho and destroy the country for good by building Projeto Fênix (Phoenix Project), a nuclear weapon of mass destruction. Throughout the plot it turns out that Esteban is actually called Leon and came from the future to prevent Alejandro's plans. He is the son of the real Esteban, who lives in a cabin near the capital, who got Rubi pregnant without her knowing that he was not the boy she had met. The real Esteban is Adriano's twin brother and the two are Alejandro's sons.

Cast

as Esteban / Adriano Allende / León *

as Lola *

Danielle Winits Danielle Winitskowski de Azevedo,
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as Enrico *

as Rubi *

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as Carlos Camacho * Betty Lago as Mercedes *

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as Dagoberto * Daniel Boaventura as Johnny * Nair Bello as Dolores * Ângela Vieira as Perla Perón *

as Alejandro Rivera * Marco Ricca as Celso Camacho *

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as Agustin Tavalera * Ítalo Rossi as Trujillo *

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as Isabelita * Mário Gomes as Ferdinando *

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as Concheta *

Mara Manzan Mara Virgínia Manzan (28 May 1952 – 13 November 2009) was a Brazilian actress. Biography Manzan was born in the city of São Paulo in 1952. At the age of 17, she visited the Teatro Oficina and, as she used to say jokingly, never left it. She ...

as Agatha * Daniel del Sarto as Guillermo *

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as Dalila * Gero Pestalozzi as Ramon * Pedro Malta as Gabriel * Adriano Reys as Pitágoras *

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as Piedad * Bete Coelho as Cristal * Marcos Breda as Che Lopez and the captain of the ship who brings Celso Camacho *

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as Everest *

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as Sodoma *

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as Rosita *

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as Dr. Orthiz *

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as Lulu *

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as Godofredo *

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as Consuelo *

Natália Lage Natália Lage Vianna Soares (born 30 October 1978) is a Brazilian actress and television presenter. Career At the age of four years, Natália Lage appeared in several commercials. Natalia Lage has acted in telenovelas since the age of eleven ...

as Frida * Nadia Rowinsky as Madalena *

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as Victor * Sérgio Loroza as Paulão *

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as Marieta *

Tatyane Goulart Tatyane Fontinhas Goulart (18 October 1983, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress. Career Goulart debuted in 1991, working for seven years in the telenovela '' Felicidade'', in the role of Bia. She portrayed Ângela in ''Quatro por Quatro ...

as Mercedita

Soundtrack

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Havana Delírio #'' Quizás, Quizás, Quizás'' -

Emmanuel Immanuel ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל, 'Īmmānū'ēl, meaning, "God is with us"; also romanized: , ; and or in Koine Greek of the New Testament) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the H ...

#''No Me Platiques Más'' - Cristian #''Contigo Aprendi'' -

José Feliciano José Montserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945) () is a Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer. He recorded many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and his self-penned Christmas song " ...

#'' Somente Eu e Você (Moonglow)'' -

Ivete Sangalo Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo (; born 27 May 1972) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, TV host, and occasional actress. She was on six albums with Banda Eva, and seven more solo albums. Sangalo is noted for her powerful voice, charisma and live per ...

#''Mulher'' -

Sidney Magal Sidney Magal, artistic name Sidney Magalhães (born 19 June 1950 in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and ...

#'' Como Um Rio (Cry Me a River)'' -

Vanessa Jackson Vanessa Jackson (born 6 June 1953; Peaslake, Surrey) is a British painter, notable for her wall installation paintings. She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2015. Education and career Jackson studied at Saint Martin's School of Art ...

#''Capullito de Aleli'' -

Caetano Veloso Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encomp ...

#''Mezcla'' - Rio Salsa #''Foo Foo'' -

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e Patricia Materola #''

Hit the Road Jack "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues singer Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles. The song was a US number 1 hit in 1961, and won a Grammy award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording, becoming one of Charles' signat ...

'' - Happening #''

Mambo No. 5 "Mambo No. 5" is an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song originally composed and recorded by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 and released the next year. German singer Lou Bega sampled the original for a new song released under th ...

'' - Tropical Brazilian Band #''Contigo En La Distancia'' -

Nana Caymmi Nana Caymmi (b. Dinahir Tostes Caymmi, April 29, 1941) is a Brazilian singer. Caymmi was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris. Her first appearance on record was on her father's album ''Acalanto''. She married ...

#'' Eu Só Me Ligo Em Você (I Get a Kick Out Of You)'' -

Elza Soares Elza da Conceição Soares ( née Gomes; 23 June 1930 – 20 January 2022), known professionally as Elza Soares (), was a Brazilian samba singer. In 1999, she was named Singer of the Millennium along with Tina Turner by BBC Radio. Elza was d ...

#''Coubanakan'' -

Ney Matogrosso Ney de Souza Pereira (born 1 August 1941), known professionally as Ney Matogrosso (), is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon countertenor voice. He was ranked by ''Rolling Stone'' as the third greatest Latin American singer ...

#''Voy Volver'' -

Alpha Beat Alphabeat were a Danish pop music, pop band from Silkeborg, fronted by singers Stine Bramsen and Anders Stig Gehrt Nielsen. Their single "Fascination (Alphabeat song), Fascination" was a major hit in Denmark during the summer of 2007, as well a ...

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#''La Puerta'' -

Luis Miguel Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...

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Fever Fever, also referred to as pyrexia, is defined as having a body temperature, temperature above the human body temperature, normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature Human body temperature#Fever, set point. There is not a single ...

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Michael Bublé Michael Steven Bublé ( ; born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian singer. A four-time Grammy Award winner, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songboo ...

#'' Copacabana'' - Happening #'' Mambo Italiano'' -

Mambo Project Mambo most often refers to: *Mambo (music), a Cuban musical form *Mambo (dance), a dance corresponding to mambo music Mambo may also refer to: Music *Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of Afro-Caribbean music, particular ...

#''

Perfidia "Perfidia" (Spanish for " perfidy", meaning ''faithlessness'', ''treachery'' or ''betrayal'') is a 1939 Spanish-language song written by Mexican composer and arranger Alberto Domínguez (1906–1975). The song is sung from the perspectiv ...

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Laura Fygi Laura Fygi (born 27 August 1955) is a Dutch jazz singer. Fygi's father was a Dutch businessman, a director of Philips, and her mother an Egyptian belly dancer. She was raised in Uruguay, until her father's death in the late 1960s, when she mo ...

#'' Tan Solo Tu y Yo (Moonglow)'' -

#''No Me Platiques Más'' - Gisela #'' The Look of Love)'' -

Dusty Springfield Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, Pop music, p ...

#'' El Hombre Que Yo Amé (The Man I Love)'' -

Omara Portuondo Omara Portuondo Peláez (born 29 October 1930) is a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians during her long career, including Julio Gu ...

#''Laura'' -

Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...

#''Wipe Out'' -

The Surfaris The Surfaris are an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California, United States, in 1962. They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles area, and nationally by May 1963: "Surfer Joe" and " Wipe Out", which ...

#''

The Man With The Golden Arm ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren. Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darre ...

'' (Delilah Jones) -

Billy May Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for ''The Green Hornet'' (1966), ''The Mod Squad'' (1968), ''Batman'' (with '' Batgirl'' them ...

#''Guantánamo'' - Pablo Gonzales #''Mambo Caliente'' -

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