Éramos Seis (English: Once We Were Six) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 30 September 2019, replacing Órfãos da Terra, and ended on 27 March 2020. It is based on the book of the same name written by Maria José Dupré. The series is adapted by Ângela Chaves, with the collaboration of Bernardo Guilherme, Daisy Chaves and Juliana Peres.
It stars Glória Pires, Nicolas Prattes, Danilo Mesquita, Giullia Buscacio, André Luiz Frambach, Simone Spoladore, Ricardo Pereira and Cássio Gabus Mendes in the main roles.
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Plot
The story tells the life of a middle-class family from São Paulo between the 1920s and 1940s. Lola (Glória Pires) is a kind woman dedicated to her family, is married to Júlio (Antonio Calloni), who aspires to be rich and was indebted to finance a house on Avenida Angélica, in São Paulo; they have four children together. The studious Carlos (Danilo Mesquita) is the pride of the family, but has a troubled romance with Inês (Carol Macedo), whose mother is against the relationship. Alfredo (Nicolas Prattes) lives in conflict with his parents for his rebellious and riotous way, in addition to hating his older brother out of jealousy. The spoiled Isabel (Giullia Buscacio) shocks everyone when she gets involved with Felício (Paulo Rocha), a much older man. Julinho (André Luiz Frambach) dates Lili (Triz Pariz), but aims to rise socially, seeing this opportunity in the romance with Soraia (Rayssa Bratillieri), daughter of the rich Assad (Werner Schünemann), his father's boss. After her husband's premature death, Lola starts selling homemade sweets to support her family.
Lola's paternal aunt, Emília (Susana Vieira), is a bitter and millionaire widow who has never helped her family and lives taking care of her daughter, Justina (Julia Stockler), who has mental problems and cannot leave the house for this reason. Emilia sent her younger daughter, Adelaide (Joana de Verona), to Switzerland as a child, but she returns as an adult and conflicts with her mother over feminist ideas and the insistence that her sister should not be deprived of social life, in addition to being sexually open-minded and gets involved with her cousin Alfredo. The rest of Lola's family lives in Itapetininga: her mother Maria (Denise Weinberg), maternal aunt Candoca (Camila Amado) and sisters Clotilde (Simone Spoladore) and Olga (Maria Eduarda de Carvalho). Clotilde lives unhappily away from Almeida (Ricardo Pereira), with whom she broke up after discovering that he was divorced, for fear of judgment, although she hopes to take the courage to live love. Olga dreamed of becoming a member of high society, but she decided to marry her great love, Zeca (Eduardo Sterblitch), even though he is a humble pharmacist, articulating for her aunt Emília to hire him to take care of her business, thus being well paid and giving herself a good life.
Shirley (Barbara Reis) has always believed that she was abandoned while pregnant in her teens by João Aranha (Caco Ciocler), unaware that everything was a plan by his mother, and when she reunites with him more than ten years later, she discovers the truth. However, she is already married to Afonso (Cássio Gabus Mendes), who cares for their daughter, Inês, causing her to be torn between the love of the two, since Aranha starts to show himself as a possessive and different man from youth. Lola's best friend is the gossip Genu (Kelzy Ecard), married to the submissive Virgulino (Kiko Mascarenhas), with whom she has two children: Lili and Lúcio (Jhona Burjack), in love with Isabel.
Cast
Glória Pires as Eleonora "Lola" Amaral de Lemos
Danilo Mesquita as Carlos Abílio de Lemos
Nicolas Prattes as Alfredo Abílio de Lemos
Giullia Buscacio as Isabel Abílio de Lemos
André Luiz Frambach as Júlio "Julinho" Abílio de Lemos Filho
Cássio Gabus Mendes as Afonso dos Santos Oliveira
Simone Spoladore as Clotilde Amaral
Ricardo Pereira as Argemiro de Almeida
Joana de Verona as Adelaide Amaral Sampaio
Carol Macedo as Inês Ferreira dos Santos
Paulo Rocha as Felício de Souza
Rayssa Bratillieri as Soraia Assad
Susana Vieira as Emília Amaral Sampaio
Maria Eduarda de Carvalho as Olga Amaral Marcondes de Bueno
Eduardo Sterblitch as José Carlos "Zeca" Marcondes de Bueno
Julia Stockler as Justina Amaral Sampaio
Bárbara Reis as Shirley Ferreira
Nicola Siri as Osório Tavares
Marcela Jacobina as Natália Tellman
Guest cast
Antônio Calloni as Júlio Abílio de Lemos
Caco Ciocler as João Aranha
Luciana Braga as Zulmira de Souza
Irene Ravache as Tereza
Nicette Bruno as Madre Joana
Marcos Caruso as Prefeito Moysés
Wagner Santisteban as Marcos
Walderez de Barros as Marlene de Lemos
Othon Bastos as Padre Venâncio
Emiliano Queiroz as Seu Isidoro
Lavínia Pannunzio as Lucy Assad
Ellen Rocche as Marion
Daniel Boaventura as Adoniran
Aline Borges as Drª. Selma Telles
Giselle Batista as Antonieta Piedade
Cláudia Ventura as Profª. Benedita
Roberto Frota as Dr. Vicente
Joelson Medeiros as Ismael
Luca de Castro as Dr. Evaristo
Gillray Coutinho as Sinval
Camilo Bevilacqua as Simão
Paulo Carvalho as Mr. Hilton
Eunice Bráulio as Carola
Soundtrack
Volume 1
Éramos Seis Vol. 1 is the first soundtrack of the telenovela, released on 6 December 2019 by Som Livre.
Volume 2
Éramos Seis Vol. 2 is the second soundtrack of the telenovela, released on 24 January 2020 by Som Livre.