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Okay, so I did a search on Escrava Isaura and this is what I got:
LOL Did the Hungarians think it was a reality show? I wonder where the money went...
Okay, so I did a search on Escrava Isaura and this is what I got:
Escrava Isaura ("Slave Isaura") it is a brazilian soap opera based on A Escrava Isaura, a Brazilian romance novel written by Bernardo Guimarães and first published in 1875 by Casa Garnier publishers, in Rio de Janeiro. With this novel, Bernardo Guimarães got very famous all over the country. He was even appreciated by Brazil's last Emperor Dom Pedro II.
The main plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Isaura, a squint-eyed white slave girl endured hard times before she was freed and finally married her star-crossed lover, Alvaro. Meanwhile she suffered a lot at the hands of Leôncio Almeida, the landlord of a big plantation farm and main antagonist in the plot, who wanted to make her a concubine. She even became briefly enamoured to the humpback dwarf Melchior and almost married him to avoid prostitution.
The novel was made into an extremaly popular telenovela on the late 1970s by Rede Globo. The public often referred to the show as Isaura, the white slave girl. It was over 200 episodes long. Isaura was played by Lucélia Santos, on the high point of her career.
The series's emotional story created an incredibly loyal audience all around the world, e.g. in South America, Eastern Europe and China. It was the first Television series allowed to air in China with a foreign actress playing the main character. In Hungary, TV subscribers allegedly spontaneously collected app. 75,000 USD worth of money and sent it to the Brazilian embassy to buy Isaura's freedom.[citation needed] In 1988-1989 the soap opera was shown in the Soviet Union under the title Рабыня Изаура (English: The Slave Isaura). Released under the title of "A slave's fortune".
The main plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Isaura, a squint-eyed white slave girl endured hard times before she was freed and finally married her star-crossed lover, Alvaro. Meanwhile she suffered a lot at the hands of Leôncio Almeida, the landlord of a big plantation farm and main antagonist in the plot, who wanted to make her a concubine. She even became briefly enamoured to the humpback dwarf Melchior and almost married him to avoid prostitution.
The novel was made into an extremaly popular telenovela on the late 1970s by Rede Globo. The public often referred to the show as Isaura, the white slave girl. It was over 200 episodes long. Isaura was played by Lucélia Santos, on the high point of her career.
The series's emotional story created an incredibly loyal audience all around the world, e.g. in South America, Eastern Europe and China. It was the first Television series allowed to air in China with a foreign actress playing the main character. In Hungary, TV subscribers allegedly spontaneously collected app. 75,000 USD worth of money and sent it to the Brazilian embassy to buy Isaura's freedom.[citation needed] In 1988-1989 the soap opera was shown in the Soviet Union under the title Рабыня Изаура (English: The Slave Isaura). Released under the title of "A slave's fortune".
LOL Did the Hungarians think it was a reality show? I wonder where the money went...
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