''Gênesis'' 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 (film and television), drama genres around the w ...

produced by

RecordTV Record (stylized in uppercase; ), formerly known as Rede Record and RecordTV, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In ...

and Casablanca that aired from 19 January 2021 to 22 November 2021. The series is written by Camilo Pellegrini, Raphaela Castro, and Stephanie Ribeiro. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Zé Carlos Machado, Adriana Garambone, Oscar Magrini,

Cássia Linhares Cássia Maria Oliveira Linhares (born November 24, 1973, in Niterói) is a Brazilian television actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in t ...

, Miguel Coelho, Thaís Melchior, Pablo Morais, Francisca Queiroz, Juliano Laham, Letícia Almeida, Juliana Boller and Carlo Porto. The plot is based on the

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Premise

Divided into seven phases, the series dates back to the beginning of humanity and the world, and tells the biblical stories of

Garden of Eden In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (; ; ) or Garden of God ( and ), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2–3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31.. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Ge ...

, Noah's Ark,

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Ur of the Chaldees Ur Kasdim (), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of Abraham, the Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites. In 1862, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Hen ...

Abraham Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...

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, and ending with Joseph of Egypt.

Cast

Garden of Eden

* Carlo Porto as

Adão Adão, a Portuguese variant of Adam (disambiguation), Adam, is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Adão (footballer), Adão (born 1960), Portuguese footballer *Cláudio Adão (born 1955), Brazilian foo ...

* Juliana Boller as Eva *

Igor Rickli Igor Rickli Christóforo (born 14 December 1983) is a Brazilian actor. Biography Rickli was born in Ponta Grossa, Paraná (state), Paraná. He is of Italian and Swiss descent. He is openly bisexual. Career He started playing theater as a ...

as Lúcifer * Caio Manhente as

Abel Abel ( ''Hébel'', in pausa ''Hā́ḇel''; ''Hábel''; , ''Hābēl'') is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within the Abrahamic religions. Born as the second son of Adam and Eve, the first two humans created by God in Judaism, God, he ...

* Eduardo Speroni as

Cain Cain is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He is the elder brother of Abel, and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the first couple within the Bible. He was a farmer who gave an offering of his crops to God. How ...

* Flávio Galvão as

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* Ana Terra Blanco as Renah * Carolina Oliveira as Kira * Anna Rita Cerqueira as Tila * Ranna Bittencourt as Aba * Fernanda Junqueira as Naira * Manu Papera as Mairi * Joana Leite as Zohar * Júlia Braz as Uma

Noah's Ark

* Oscar Magrini as Noé ** Bruno Guedes as Young Noé *

as Naamá ** Rafaela Sampaio as Young Naamá *

as Lúcifer * Augusto Caliman as Sem * Marjorie Gerardi as Heidi * Vinícius Redd as

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* Clara Niin as Tali * Gil Coelho as Jafé * Nicole Rosemberg as Dana * Leonardo Medeiros as Zeno * Clemente Viscaíno as Metusalém * Jayme Periard as Lameque * Alessandra Verney as Ada * Carolina Chalita as Zilá * Iran Malfitano as Tubalcaim * Fernando Roncato as Jabal * Sérgio Abreu as Jubal * Flávio Galvão as

* Stephanie Serrat as Laíza

Tower of Babel

* Pablo Morais as Ninrode * Francisca Queiroz as Semíramis * Pâmela Tomé as Liba * Giuseppe Oristanio as Gomer *

as Lúcifer * Eline Porto as Harete * Marcelo Galdino as Cuxe * Adriana Rabelo as Ulia * Daniel Dalcin as Asquenaz * Caio Menck as Togarma * Hugo Carvalho as

Peleg Peleg (, in pausa , "division"; ) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the Generations of Noah in and . In Scriptures Peleg's son was Reu, born w ...

ue * Gisela Reimann as Jália * Duda Balestero as Cilá * Vicky Valentim as Siméia * Marcelo Gonçalves as Elisá * Mariana Gallindo as Zade * Flávio Galvão as

* Ed Canedo as Sidom * Saulo Rodrigues as Társis * Mario Hermeto as

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* Dudu Azevedo as

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Production

Filming of the telenovela began in November 2019 in

Cambará Cambará is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. Climate See also *List of municipalities in Paraná This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraná (PR), located in the South Region of Bra ...

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, ; ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, fifth-most populous state and the List of Brazilian s ...

. Production also took place in

Ponta Grossa Ponta Grossa () is a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. The estimated population is 355,336 according to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and it is the 4th most populous city in Paraná ( ...

, Diamantina,

Itaguaí Itaguaí () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro and contains several important iron ore loading ports of the world including Ilha Guaiba. Its population was 134,819 in 2020 and its area is 273 km2. The city wa ...

, and in

Ouarzazate Ouarzazate (; , ), nicknamed ''the door of the desert'', is a city and capital of Ouarzazate Province in the region of Drâa-Tafilalet, south-central Morocco. Ouarzazate is a primary tourist destination in Morocco during the holidays, as well as ...

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. On 16 March 2020, it was announced that filming of the telenovela was suspended due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. RecordTV was forced to bring back cast members filming in Morocco to Brazil. Because of this, the premiere, which was scheduled for 14 April 2020, had to be postponed by RecordTV. Filming resumed on 19 October 2020 with strict safety protocols. During the suspension it was decided that the telenovela would no longer film in Morocco.

Ratings

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External links

* {{RecordTV telenovelas 2021 telenovelas 2021 Brazilian television series debuts 2021 Brazilian television series endings 2020s Brazilian television series RecordTV telenovelas Portuguese-language telenovelas Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic Cultural depictions of Isaac Religious telenovelas