''Treze Dias Longe do Sol'' (English: ''Thirteen Days Away From the Sun'') is a Brazilian

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co-produced by O2 Filmes and

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. It was originally released on 2 November 2017 on Globoplay, Globo's streaming platform. From 8 January 2018 to 19 January 2018, one episode per night aired from Monday to Friday on

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. Written by Elena Soarez and Luciano Moura with Sofia Maldonado, it is directed by Luciano Moura with Isabel Valiente. The series follows a group of people trapped under a collapsed building as they struggle to survive and escape, the pain of their relatives and friends as they try to learn if they survived, and attempts by the company responsible for the building's construction to preserve their public image and hide irregularities which may have contributed to the collapse. It stars

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, with

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, Paulo Vilhena,

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, Fabrício Boliveira and Enrique Diaz.

Plot

A medical center collapses in the final stages of construction. The engineer responsible is the ambitious Saulo (

), who becomes the target of the press and his business partners. He is trapped in the rubble with workers and Marion (

), a physician who is the daughter of the medical center's owner and with whom he had a relationship which ended badly. On the surface, friends and relatives of the victims deal with the pain of not knowing their fate, and Saulo's company tries to avoid being accused of causing the collapse.

Cast

as Saulo Garcez *

as Marion Rupp *Paulo Vilhena as Vitor Baretti *

as Gilda *Fabrício Boliveira as Marco Antônio *

as Dr. Rodolfo Rupp *Enrique Diaz as Newton da Nóbrega *

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as Yasmin *Eucir de Souza as Rey Lopes *Antônio Fábio as Jesuíno *Arilson Lopes as Bené *Démick Lopes as Zica *Rômulo Braga as Daréu *Pedro Wagner as Altair *Marcos de Andrade as Messias *Maria Manoella as Ilana Krieg *Jiddu Pinheiro as Dr. Marcelo

Guest appearances

* Eucir de Souza as Captain Ney Lopes *

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as Gilda's father *Glauber Amaral as Dario *Ana Carolina Godoy as Reporter

Production

The series spent two years in production, and was filmed in

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from December 2016 to April 2017. It featured actors from

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as construction workers, to give the story a realistic tone.

Episodes

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External links

* {{Television programs broadcast on Rede Globo (current and upcoming) 2017 Brazilian television series debuts 2017 Brazilian television series endings Brazilian television miniseries TV Globo original programming Portuguese-language television shows Brazilian drama television series