“Yargi: Segredos de Família” won the 2023 International Emmy Awards for best soap opera, this Monday (20). The production defeated two successful Brazilian films: the remake of “Pantanal” and “Cara e Coragem”.
In addition to these three productions, the Portuguese soap opera “Para semper” had also been nominated for the award.
Check out the plot of the winner and the other soap operas competing for the award below.
Yargi: family secrets
Celina (Pınar Deniz) is a lawyer, but she doesn’t entirely believe in justice. That’s why she goes over all the rules when she thinks she can.
Isaque (Kaan Urgancıoğlu) is a highly respected prosecutor who is afraid of the law. He is capable of anything to defend his work and principles.
When his brother, Saulo (Arda Anarat), is arrested accused of killing a woman, Celina is hired to defend him.
With a lot of suspense, intrigue and twists surrounding this death, Celina and Isaque get closer and end up finding themselves intertwined in a case that unites their families and reveals secrets.
Written by Sema Ergenekon and produced by Ay Yapim, the serial debuted in 2021 in Turkey, but was later sold to more than 20 countries.
The third season began airing on September 24th and is expected to end in May 2024.
Forever
Enigmatic, Pedro Valente (Diogo Morgado) wants to win back Clara Sampaio de Menezes (Inês Castel-Branco), his great love from his youth.
However, Clara is from a conservative family of old Portuguese nobility while Pedro’s social origin is unknown.
That’s why her father, Bento Sampaio de Menezes (Luís Esparteiro), is against romance. To prove to his daughter that Pedro was not worthy of her, he sets a trap that ends up causing the death of one of the protagonist’s friends.
Pedro flees the crime scene without giving any explanations to Clara, who is devastated. Over time, he makes a fortune and goes in search of his origins, but ends up meeting Clara again, who now has a relationship with his brother, Lourenço Novais (Pedro Sousa).
The series was produced by Plural Entertainment and broadcast on TVI from November 8, 2021 to August 25, 2023.
The soap opera was created and written by André Ramalho, Juan Barros and Inês Melo, directed by Francisco Antunez, João Gomes and Ricardo Carreira and directed by Hugo de Sousa.
Pantanal
Joventino (Osmar Prado), who will later be called “old man of the river”, was the biggest farmhand in the Pantanal, but disappeared without a trace and abandoning his son José Leôncio (Marcos Palmeira).
Two decades later, Leôncio’s son, Jove (Jesuíta Barbosa), goes to live with him in the Pantanal.
However, they begin to confront a series of cultural and behavioral differences.
Amid family problems, Jove meets Juma Marruá (Alanis Guillen), and they fall in love.
Daughter of Maria and Gil, the young woman learned from her mother to defend herself from the “man beast”, who killed the entire family in fights over land, thus, she became a wild and aloof woman.
Remake of a soap opera of the same name, created and written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa and originally shown on Rede Manchete in 1990, Pantanal was produced by TV Globo from March to October 2022 as a “nine o’clock soap opera”.
Adapted by Bruno Luperi, directed by Davi Lacerda, Noa Bressane, Roberta Richard, Walter Carvalho and Cristiano Marques.
It features the performances of Marcos Palmeira, Dira Paes, Jesuíta Barbosa, Alanis Guillen, Irandhir Santos, Camila Morgado, José Loreto and Isabel Teixeira in the main roles.
Face and Courage
Clarice Gusmão (Taís Araújo) is the director of a steel company that has a research department headed by Jonathan Azevedo (Guilherme Weber).
He has developed a revolutionary secret magnesium-based formula, which Clarice is interested in. She then hires stunt doubles Pat (Paola Oliveira) and Moa (Marcelo Serrado).
They manage to find the document in a cave, but soon discover that Clarice was murdered, beginning investigations.
Produced by TV Globo and shown from May 2022 to January 2023, as a “soap opera”.
The serial was written by Claudia Souto, with the collaboration of Isadora Wilkinson, Júlia Laks, Wendell Bendelack and Zé Dassilva. It was directed by Oscar Francisco, Cadu França, Mayara Aguiar and Matheus Malafaia.
The cast included actors such as Paolla Oliveira (protagonist), Marcelo Serrado (protagonist), Taís Araújo (protagonist), Paulo Lessa, Ícaro Silva, Mel Lisboa, Ricardo Pereira and André Luiz Frambach.
Awards
In addition to the two soap operas, five other Brazilian productions were nominated for an International Emmy.
So far, only “A Ponte – The Bridge Brasil” has brought the award to Brazilians, in the category of best reality show.
The International Emmy Awards are considered the Oscars of television: the biggest award in the television industry worldwide.
Source: CNN Brasil
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