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| Mulheres de Areia | |
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| Created by | Ivani Ribeiro |
| Developed by | TV Globo |
| Starring | Glória Pires Guilherme Fontes Marcos Frota Raul Cortez Suzana Vieira Laura Cardoso Sebastião Vasconcelos Vivianne Pasmanter Humberto Martins Paulo Goulart Andréa Beltrão Daniel Dantas Thaís de Campos Adriano Reys Nicette Bruno Jonas Bloch Isadora Ribeiro Evandro Mesquita Gabriela Alves Karina Perez |
| Opening theme | "Sexy Yemanjá" byPepeu Gomes |
| Country of origin | Brazil |
| Original language | Portuguese |
| No. of episodes | 203 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | TV Globo |
| Release | 1 February (1993-02-01) – 24 September 1993 (1993-09-24) |
Mulheres de Areia (Portuguese pronunciation:[muˈʎɛɾiʒdʒaˈɾejɐ],transl. Sand Women) is a Braziliantelenovela produced by theTV Globo and aired between 1 February 1993 and 24 September 1993, in 203 episodes. It was written by Ivani Ribeiro with the contribution of Solange Castro Neves and directed byWolf Maya, Ignácio Coqueiro, Andre Schultz and Carlos Magalhães. It is aremake of thesoap opera of the same name that aired on the now-defunctRede Tupi from 1973 to 1974, whenEva Wilma portrayed the two main characters of the plot (the twins Ruth and Raquel), which in turn is based on the 1965 radio soap opera As Noivas Morrem no Mar (The Brides Die at Sea). In 2023, it received a special re-airing in honor of its 30th anniversary.[1]
Young Marcos Assunção goes to the fictional city of Pontal D' Areia to assist in the businesses of the Assunção family. The young man meets Ruth, daughter of a poor fisherman, and falls in love with her, but he ends up involved with Raquel, the twin sister of Ruth. The sisters are identical, but of opposite personalities. While Ruth truly loves the young man, Raquel desires his position and riches. She also has a lover, Wanderley.
Tonho da Lua, best friend of Ruth, is mentally disturbed and famous for creating sculptures of women with the sand of the beach. Raquel must also face Virgílio Assunção, Marcos's father, who doesn't accept her relationship with his son. Virgílo, an unscrupulous man, is the vice-mayor and owner of the biggest hotel in the city. His goal is to turn Pontal D' Areia into a tourist center, but he must deal with the mayor of the city, the politician Breno. The population of the city is divided. Breno has one ally, Tônia, a local trader. To demoralize Breno, Virgílio putsscarecrows in the beaches, symbolizing the mayor.
Meanwhile, Ruth suffers in silence with the wedding of Marcos and Raquel. The plot has a twist when Raquel is believed dead in an accident at sea and Ruth assumes her identity to be with the man she loves. But Raquel did not die and she returns to claim her life.
