"Mulheres de Areia" (1993) TV series

Directors:

Ignácio Coqueiro
Carlos Magalhães

Writers:

Solange Castro Neves (writer)
Ivani Ribeiro (writer)

Release Date:

1 February 1993 (Brazil)

Plot Keywords:

Soap | Remake

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Glória Pires	...	Ruth Araújo / Raquel Araújo Assunção
Guilherme Fontes	...	Marcos Assunção
Marcos Frota	...	Tonho da Lua
Vivianne Pasmanter	...	Malu Assunção
Humberto Martins	...	Alaor de Almeida Passos
Eloísa Mafalda	...	Manuela
Paulo Goulart	...	Donato
Nicete Bruno	...	Julieta 'Juju' Sampaio
Adriano Reys	...	Oswaldo Sampaio
Sebastião Vasconcelos	...	Floriano Araújo
Laura Cardoso	...	Isaura Araújo
Daniel Dantas	...	Breno Soares de Azevedo
Isadora Ribeiro	...	Vera Soares de Azevedo
Evandro Mesquita	...	Joel
Giovanna Gold	...	Alzira

Runtime:

Brazil:45 min (201 episodes)

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Company:

Rede Globo de Televisão

Trivia:

When each one of the two twin sisters appeared on a scene, Glória Pires played Ruth and Raquel, but when the two twin sisters appeared together on the same scene, the actress Graziela de Laurentis worked as a double with the actress Glória Pires.

Movie Connections:

Remake of "O Espantalho" (1977)

Soundtrack:

Down - T

Brazilian soap opera about beautiful and opposite twins.

This soap opera kept the attention of millions in Brazil through about 6 months. It's a version of an old soap opera in 70's, ruled by Eva Wilma. The star of this Rede Globo's production is Glória Pires, brilliant as the twins Ruth and Raquel. The production of the soap opera had a lot of visual effects to ensure the quality in the scenes when the twins appeared together. That's one of the best operas producted by Rede Globo and has been exported to several countries, like Portugal etc.