Decadência

Decadência is a 1995 Brazilian miniseries produced and displayed by Rede Globo between September 5 and September 22, 1995, in a total of 12 chapters.

Decadência
Created byDias Gomes
Directed byIgnácio Coqueiro
Roberto Farias
StarringEdson Celulari
Adriana Esteves
Raul Gazolla
Zezé Polessa
Stênio Garcia
Ingra Liberato
Ariclê Perez
Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Maria Zilda Bethlem
Betty Gofman
Maria Padilha
Rubens Corrêa
Country of originBrazil
Original language(s)Portuguese
No. of episodes12
Release
Original networkRede Globo
Original releaseSeptember 5 –
September 22, 1995

Written by Dias Gomes, it was freely inspired by a novel of the author himself, it counted in general direction and supervision of Roberto Farias and Ignácio Coqueiro.

With main roles played by Edson Celulari e Adriana Esteves.

Plot

The miniseries shows the decline of a conservative and once-powerful Carioca family, the Tavares Branco, in the period from 1984 to 1992. Following the death of Tancredo Neves to the election and downfall of President Fernando Collor, the Tavares Branco are failing and revealing their moral and financial problems.

The plot begins in 1970 with the judge Tavares Branco accepting a priest's request to raise an orphan boy, Mariel, who stays under the care of maid Jandira. Mariel grows and becomes the family driver, but ends up getting involved with Carla, the youngest of the house, and is expelled from the mansion, accused of rape.

Time passes, and Mariel finds Jandira, who has always had a love for the former driver. She takes him to a cult in a Neo-Pentecostalism church, and Mariel finds salvation in her church for his problems. Five years later, he becomes a millionaire after founding his own church, the Temple of the Divine Flame, while his former masters impoverish. But the same feelings of the past continue to connect Mariel's new life to the universe of the Tavares Branco: the passion for Carla and the desire for revenge.

Although they love each other, Mariel and Carla have different ideals of life: he intends to grow more and more with their churches, and she, quite politicized, elect of the PT, does not agree with her unethical way of acting.

Cast
Actor/ActressCharacter
Edson CelulariMariel Batista
Adriana EstevesCarla Tavares Branco
Raul GazollaVictor Prata
Zezé PolessaJandira
Stênio GarciaAlbano Tavares Branco Filho
Ingra LiberatoRafaela Couto Neves
Milton GonçalvesJovildo Siqueira
Maria PadilhaSônia Tavares Branco
Ariclê PerezCeleste Tavares Branco
Betty GofmanSuzana Tavares Branco
Oswaldo LoureiroEmiliano Couto Neves
Cibele LarramaMariana
Antônio CalloniCleto
Patrícia LopesNanci
Leonardo JoséVicentinho
Patrícia NavesSueli
Rafael MondegoNeco
Special participation
ActorCharacter
Cássio Gabus MendesPriest Giovani
Paulo GorgulhoDelegate Etevaldo Morsa
Isadora RibeiroLuzia
Ricardo BlatArtêmio
Silvia BandeiraEstela Couto Neves
Norma GeraldyDalva Tavares Branco
Introducing
ActorCharacter
Virgínia NovickVilma Luchesi
Guest actors
Luiz Fernando Guimarães como PJ (Pedro Jorge Tavares Branco)
Maria Zilda Bethlem como Irene
Rubens Corrêa como Albano Tavares Branco
Yolanda Cardoso como Tia Lalu

Repercussion

Decadência caused a great controversy with a religious preaching of Mariel, character of Edson Celulari, who found a quote from the spiritual leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Bishop Edir Macedo.[1]

The miniseries provoked a revolt of the spiritual leader. At the time of its screening, in September 1995, a Rede Globo was in "war" with a Church, having shown several reports against the leader of the church weeks before the miniseries debut. How strong scenes of the miniseries were considered as a provocation and a blasphemy to the evangelical faith. In an episode of the miniseries, during a sex scene, a bra was thrown over the Bible.

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References
  1. "Livro 'Decadência' usa frases de bispo" (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. September 9, 1995. Retrieved November 2, 2017.


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