''Hilda Furacão'' (English: ''Hilda'' ''Hurricane'') is a Brazilian

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produced by

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which originally aired from May 27 to July 23 of 1998, with a total of 32 episodes. The miniseries took the time slot of ''Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos'' (English: ''Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'') and was followed by ''Labirinto'' (English: ''Labyrinth''). It was written by

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and directed by Wolf Maya, Maurício Farias, and Luciano Sabino. The miniseries was based on Roberto Drummond's book by the same name, which was in turn based on the life of a prostitute; Hilda Maia Valentim, known in the red light district of

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as Hilda Furacão. The cast featured

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, Danton Mello, Eva Todor, Paulo Autran, Thiago Lacerda,

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, and Rogério Cardoso.

Plot

The most sought-after prostitute in the

, Minas Gerais, brothels during the 50s and 60s, Hilda Müller (

) was the daughter of a highly respected middle-class family. She scandalized society by breaking away from her family and shattering taboos, fleeing on her wedding day and seeking refuge in a brothel and adopting the alias Hilda Furacão. The miniseries contrasts antagonistic contexts (religiosity and profligacy behavior; revolution and counter-revolution), as well as protagonist characters (Hilda Furacão and Frei Malthus (

)). The series ends during the 60s, after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'etat.

Cast

Production

The mission of adapting the book ''Hilda Furacão'' for TV was given to

by Mário Lúcio Vaz, then director of Central Globo de Produções. Perez ended up busying herself with other work, and Hilda's concept went through several potential authors until she returned to the project in 1997. To portray the 60s, Perez spoke with activists of the time, including

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(also a member of the cast) and Apolônio de Carvalho. Ana Paulo Arósio, then hired by rival network SBT, was specially assigned by

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for the miniseries. The idea for the casting came from director Wolf Maya. Scenes which took place in the fictional Santana dos Ferros were recorded in

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, where the production temporarily closed streets and altered facades. The

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, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, passed as the

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, and the

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City Council served as the Belo Horizonte City Council.

Internet virality

The series went viral on the internet in November of 2023, when scenes featuring the titular protagonist (

) and her love interest Frei Malthus (

) began to circulate on social media, primarily as

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clips, giving rise to various memes by anglophone audiences. One catalyst may have been an interview on ''

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'' with American actress

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in which she said she "got the best kiss" in the film ''

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'' with Rodrigo Santoro, leading fans to look into Santoro's previous work.

References

External links

* {{Rede Globo telenovelas Brazilian television miniseries TV Globo telenovelas 1998 Brazilian television series debuts 1998 Brazilian television series endings Telenovelas by Glória Perez Culture in Minas Gerais