Madonna Mia or Paola Macaroni After the “Slavery of Isaura” and “Senorita”, our viewers again had a unique opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of the history of Brazil and the political events of the late XIX century. All the fault - the cult Brazilian TV series "Land of Love", included in the golden collection of TV series "GLOBO" of the twentieth century. The “adventures of the Italians in Brazil” were followed by viewers of more than 90 countries, including Italy, Serbia, Lithuania, Morocco, Croatia, Spain, Colombia, France, Israel and, of course, Russia.
Against the background of historical events of the late XIX century, the main storyline develops. Two solitudes – Juliana (Ana Paula Arosio) and Mateo (Tiagu Lacerda) – meet on a ferry from Italy to Brazil. The girl's parents die of a deadly disease on the ship, and the only person left with a green-eyed Italian woman is a new lover. But, descending from the ladder of the ferry, Juliana is lost among the crowd and for several dozen series remains without a constricted one. This is in the hands of Mr. Francesco Malliano (Raul Cortez), who is concerned about his hoodlum son Marco Antonio (Marcelo Antonio). Seeing that the offspring falls in love with the girl, Francesco does everything to betroth the young.
On the other side of the barricades, the story develops between Mateo and the passionate Brazilian Rosana ("Carolina Casting"). A girl without memory falls in love with the “sweaty and smelly Italian” and tries to deceive his heart.
The author of the series, Beneditou Rui Barbosa, has done a tremendous job, writing down the character of each hero to the smallest detail. Gumersindu (Antonio Fagundez) is a kind of tyrant father with a good heart, Maria do Socorru (Debora Duarte) is a hen mother who closes her eyes to her husband's infidelities with slaves, Angelica (Paloma Duarte) is a devout quiet woman who turns into a tiger wife, obsessed with Bartolo grapes (Antonio Calloni>), and many others. There are not many characters in this novel, but everyone has their own secret and their skeletons in the closet.
And in "Terra Nostra" (which literally translates as "Our land") raised a lot of social topics that are relevant to modern man. For example, crossing the border, anarchism, the economic crisis, the death of a child, the search for a better life on the other side of the planet and the development of the economy through the sale of coffee.
I must say that during the first screening of the series in Russia, the ratings of "Earth" were impressive. The paradox is that it was this novella (and Land of Hope) that divided Russians into two camps. Some believe that the boring “Terra Nostra” still did not come up with anything, others – on the contrary, say that the series – for all time.
I belong to the second category and sincerely do not understand: how can a series in which so much money was “injected”, which gives the viewer a lot of new knowledge about Italy and Brazil, which is saturated with wonderful music, be boring?
For me, this is a real pearl of Brazilian cinema.
10 out of 10
