Órfãos da Terra (English: Orphans of a Nation) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo, from 2 April 2019 to 27 September 2019. The telenovela is written by Duca Rachid and Thelma Guedes, with Dora Castellar, Aimar Labaki, Carolina Ziskind and Cristina Biscay as co-writers. It is directed by André Câmara and Gustavo Fernandez, and co-directed by Pedro Peregrino, Bruno Safadi, Alexandre Macedo and Lúcio Tavares.
It stars Julia Dalavia, Renato Góes, Alice Wegmann, Carmo Dalla Vecchia and Rodrigo Simas in the main roles.
The telenovela addresses the refugee crisis around the world, and the displaced Lebanese Brazilians living in São Paulo since the 20th century.
In 2020, the show won the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela.
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Plot
After being victims of a bombing in Syria, Missade (Ana Cecília Costa) and Elias (Marco Ricca) flee to Lebanon with their children, Khaled, a boy who was injured, and Laila (Julia Dalavia) - who agrees to marry a powerful sheikh, Aziz Abdallah (Herson Capri) in exchange for money to pay for his brother's treatment. However, when Khaled dies, Laila escapes to Brazil with her parents. After realizing this, the sheikh sends after her Jammil (Renato Góes), a man of his trust and fiancee of his daughter, Dalila Abdallah (Alice Wegmann). Inevitably Laila and Jammil fall in love and become fugitives. Aziz also decides to go to Brazil to make sure his marriage with Laila is fulfilled. Mysteriously, Aziz is murdered, to which his daughter, Dalila, goes to Brazil with a plan to get revenge on Jammil and Laila.
Cast
Julia Dalavia as Laila Faiek
Renato Góes as Jammil Zarif
Alice Wegmann as Dalila Abdallah / Basma Bakri
Carmo Dalla Vecchia as Paul Abbás
Rodrigo Simas as Bruno Monte Castelli
Anajú Dorigon as Camila Nasser
Kaysar Dadour as Fauze
Emanuelle Araújo as Zuleika Nasser
Danton Mello as Antonio Carlos Almeida (Delegado Almeidinha)
Bia Arantes as Valéria Augusta
Guilherme Fontes as Norberto Monte Castelli
Leona Cavalli as Teresa Monte Castelli
Ana Cecília Costa as Missade Faiek
Marco Ricca as Elias Faiek
Carol Castro as Dr. Helena Torquato
Eliane Giardini as Rânia Anssarah Nasser
Paulo Betti as Miguel Nasser
Bruno Cabrerizo as Hussein Zarif
Allan Souza Lima as Youssef Abdallah
Veronica Debom as Sara Roth Fischer / Maria
Marcelo Médici as Abner Blum
Guest cast
Herson Capri as Sheik Aziz Abdallah
Letícia Sabatella as Soraia Anssarah Abdallah
Rodrigo Vidal as Khaled Faiek
Alexandre Moreno as Delegado Evandro
Raquel Fabbri as Estela
Rafael Sieg as Rodrigo Torquato
Beatrice Sayd as Samira
Álvaro Brandão as Ahmed
Thales Miranda as Arthurzinho (5 years old)
Soundtrack
Órfãos da Terra (Trilha Sonora da Novela) is the soundtrack of the telenovela, released on 31 May 2019 by Som Livre.
