Força de um Desejo
Força de um Desejo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo, and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 227 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira and Sérgio Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo.
Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis, Louise Cardoso, Reginaldo Faria, Denise Del Vecchio and Paulo Betti in leading roles.
Synopsis
The setting is Paraíba Valley, Rio de Janeiro, in the nineteenth century. Higino Ventura is a former peddler who enriched with shady dealings and bought Hill Top Farm in the town of Sant'Anna, to approach his old flame, Helen, a resident of the farm neighbor, Golden Green, now married to the powerful Baron Henry de Sampaio Sobral. Ventura is willing to do anything to win back Helen, including buying Golden Green and obtaining a noble title. But Helena, though disregarding him for the love of her husband, suffers at the hands of the Baron, who knows that Abelard, who raised him as his son is actually the son of Ventura.The couple's legitimate son, Ignatius, does not conform to the cruel treatment that his father gives his mother and decides to leave the farm. At Rio de Janeiro, he meets Esther Ramos Delamare, a beautiful courtesan, owner of the most famous saloon of the Court. They fall in love and live an intense romance, and Esther decides to leave her kind of life just to live with Ignatius. However, the unexpected death of his mother makes Ignatius return to the farm to help his father and brother. Moreover, he splits with Esther because of intrigues by his grandmother, Idalina Menezes Albuquerque Silveira, who, though not suspect Esther is a courtesan, fears her grandson's involvement with a girl of lower social class. To destroy the romance, Idalina falsifies his grandson's signature and sends Esther a letter, convincing her that Ignatius does not love her anymore.
Baron Sobral, devastated by the death of Helena and the feelings of guilt that torment him because he gave his wife a miserable life, decides to start his life and makes a long trip to the Court. After meeting Esther, he falls in love without knowing she is the woman who is loved by his son. He convinces her that it's not worth destroying her life by the disillusion that she is suffering, and willing to give her a chance to have a new life, asks her to marry him. After the marriage is sanctified, Sobral and Esther go to Golden Green, and getting there, Esther has over a sad surprise to come face to face with Ignatius; victims of a trap destination, now they will live on the same farm, without the Baron suspect that his new wife is the same woman his son had fallen in love.
Esther and Ignatius are avoided, but eventually end up clarifying the misunderstanding that separated them. They decide tell Sobral the truth, but end up not doing it to discover that the Baron is ill and, more than ever, needs the help of his family. Dissatisfied with the situation and knowing that Golden Green is facing financial difficulties, Ignatius married Alice, the daughter of Higino Ventura and his wife, dazzled Barbara, who only thinks of becoming a noble.
Meanwhile, Ventura struggle to get the barony and buy Golden Green, in order to humiliate the baron. He becomes obsessed with Olivia, a young woman who arrives to the village of Sant'Anna. Snubbed by the girl, he tries to find out who she is and he discovers that she is a white slave who fled from another village and is being sought by the police. Olivia born of the relationship between a wealthy landowner and a slave already quite clear, as is described in the plot. Her father recognized her as a daughter, and even his family did not accept such situation, he gave him the name of Anna Tambellini, educated her and wrote her letter of manumission. But the big mistake of the man was not register officially the letter. When he died, his eldest daughter, making envy, tore the letter of manumission and wanted to make Anna a slave. For this reason the girl ran away and changed her name to Olivia. However, Ventura, finding Olivia's sister and become aware of the whole story, decides to deliver her, and then buying her to use as a sex slave. She then begins to live in a hell, unable to get rid from the clutches of her cruel owner, even aided by her boyfriend, the young doctor Mariano Xavier, and their friends, among them Ignatius and Esther.
But one fact undermines the entire village of Sant'Anna: Baron Henry Sobral is murdered during the feast of betrothal between Abelard and sweet Juliana, at the same night which Ignatius and Esther flee to live together after knowing about the farce of Sobral's disease - fear of losing his wife, the Baron made the disease up as a way to prevent Esther leave, keeping her well, by his side. Local police mobilized to arrest Ignatius, the prime suspect in the death of Baron. Then begins a race against time to Ignatius did not pay for the crime he did not commit, while those who believe it try to uncover the identity of the real killer.
Cast
| Actor | Character |
| Malu Mader | Baronesa Ester de Sampaio Sobral |
| Fábio Assunção | Inácio Sobral |
| Cláudia Abreu | Olívia Xavier |
| Reginaldo Faria | Barão Henrique Sobral |
| Paulo Betti | Higino Ventura |
| Nathália Timberg | Idalina Menezes de Albuquerque Silveira |
| Lavínia Vlasak | Alice Ventura |
| Selton Mello | Abelardo Sobral |
| Denise Del Vecchio | Bárbara Ventura |
| Marcelo Serrado | Mariano Xavier |
| Isabel Fillardis | Luzia |
| Louise Cardoso | Guiomar Pereira da Silva |
| Cláudio Corrêa e Castro | Leopoldo Silveira |
| Daniel Dantas | Bartolomeu Xavier |
| Júlia Feldens | Juliana Xavier |
| André Barros | Trajano Cantuária |
| José Lewgoy | Felício Cantuária |
| Chico Diaz | Clemente |
| Chica Xavier | Rosália |
| Antônio Grassi | Vitório |
| Dira Paes | Palmira |
| Sérgio Menezes | Jesus |
| Ana Carbatti | Zulmira |
| Nelson Dantas | Dr. Xavier |
| Rosita Tomaz Lopes | Fabíola Xavier |
| Alexandre Moreno | Cristóvão |
| Luís Magnelli | Gaspar |
Cameo
| Actor | Character |
| Abrahão Farc | Padre Olinto |
| André Valli | Lourival |
| Ângelo Paes Leme | Rodrigo |
| Antônio Fragoso | Isidoro |
| Bruno Garcia | Lauro |
| Carlos Alberto | judge |
| Carlos Eduardo Dolabella | Comendador Queiroz |
| Carlos Gregório | Barcelos |
| Carlos Machado | Estácio |
| Cláudio Mamberti | Domingos de Castro Magalhães |
| Clemente Viscaíno | Inspector Bustamante |
| Cosme dos Santos | Quirino |
| David Herman | Stanley |
| Dary Reis | Albano |
| Delma Silva | Diva |
| Elaine Mickely | Hermínia Montez |
| Eliana Guttman | Laura |
| Élida Muniz | Marta |
| Fábio Sabag | Breno Rangel |
| Flávio Galvão | Nereu |
| Giovanna Antonelli | Violeta |
| Glória Portella | Florinda |
| Helder Agostini | Manoel |
| Helena Fernandes | Srtª. Clara Toledo de Mendonça |
| Henrique César | Marquês de Boaventura |
| Henrique Taxman | Dr. Humberto |
| Jayme Periard | Padre Osvaldo |
| José Augusto Branco | Epaminondas |
| José de Abreu | Pereira |
| Júlio Braga | sexton |
| Kadu Karneiro | Pedro |
| Lineu Dias | Luciano |
| Lucas Bonel | Otavinho Ventura Sobral |
| Luciana Azevedo | Ivete |
| Luiz Guilherme | Carrazedo |
| Marcelo Várzea | Ubaldo |
| Márcia Del Anillo | Noêmia |
| Marco Ricca | Conde Pedro Afonso de Andrade Aguiar |
| Mariana Ximenes | Ângela |
| Mário Lago | Dr. Teodoro |
| Murilo Rosa | Eugênio |
| Neuza Amaral | Anita |
| Nill Marcondes | Zelito |
| Otávio Augusto | Dr. Eurico Navarro |
| Otávio Müller | Ferdinando |
| Othon Bastos | promoter |
| Paulo Reis | Shepherd |
| Raniere Gonzalez | Reinaldo |
| Ronnie Marruda | Raimundo |
| Samuel Mello | Dário |
| Sônia Braga | Baronesa Helena Sobral |
| Sônia Siqueira | Hortência |
| Stepan Nercessian | Ernani Corrêa |
| Thereza Piffer | Dora Tambellini |
| Victor Fasano | Nicolau Prado |
| Vinícius Marques | Valdir |
| Viviane Victorette | Clarissa |
| Xando Graça | auctioneer of slaves |
| Yaçanã Martins | Socorro |