Telenovelas

[MissLT]

The title is Los Ricos También Lloran/The rich also cry

[edumelo]

It was a shock when I saw my aunt watching her favorite soap, which she's been watching it more than 10 years, when I first came to the States.

10 years ?!?!

I've never seen so long soap.

[Cypress]

I watched La Esclava Isaura when I was about six.

Then I watched Los Ricos También Lloran when I was about nine. After this soap opera, Veronica Castro (Mariana) became very popular in Russia and Ukraine, and in 1992, she even visited Moscow.

The next soap opera I watched was Simplemente María. But I didn’t like it much.

Then Rosa Salvaje with Veronica Castro again. Another actor who played both in Los Ricos También Lloran and in Rosa Salvaje was Guillermo Capetillo. The funny thing that in the first one, he was the son of Mariana (played by Veronica Castro), but in the second one he was the husband of Rosa (again played by Veronica Castro). So in 1979, he is her son, but in 1987 he is her husband
By the way, I watched this soap opera again about five months ago. Here, we have a Spanish-speaking channel called Telefutura (or was it Telemundo? I’m not sure). Anyway, I watched Rosa Salvaje again. This time in Spanish. Unfortunately, when I find out that they are broadcasting it, they had shown more than half episodes already. Still it was nice to see it again; it kind of brought me back to my childhood.

The one I’m watching now is called Lazos de Amor. I’ve never seen this one before. It’s nice, and I can understand almost everything. I was watching it during the summer, but now my classes began, and I can watch it only once a week. Amazing, only watching one out of five episodes, I still can figure out what is going on. That’s how soap operas are

[Oriani]

Wow. I didn't know they were famous in other countries!!! I just can't imagine how they sound like in other languages

[edumelo]

Wow. I didn't know they were famous in other countries!!! I just can't imagine how they sound like in other languages

Once I saw some brazilian soap operas in Spanish, Russian, English and even in Chinese. They sound really funny in other languages, look for it on YouTube.

[Oriani]

Yeah! I have seen Brazilian soap Operas in Protuguese and it sounds strange for me because I have always seen them in Spanish! Imagine.. lol

[Elba]

Lenny, Los ricos también lloran was long, but not 10 years long. Maybe the channel television put the soap two times in different years.

[MissLT]

I was talking about my aunt's show, which I believe has been going on for 30 years plus now.

[TearHere]

I remember the one telenovela that really was a huge hit here was Rosalinda. Then there was Marimar.. Incidentally, these telenovelas star Thalia.

[jrkp]

In Brazil, some soap operas were even censured during the militar dictatorship because some themes were against the government or just because the president didn't like the theme. One of the censured soap operas has been "Roque Santeiro", that was censured in 1975 but shown after the end of the dictatorship, in 1985.

Today, all the brazilian soap operas have any social element in its story, since our economic and social inequality to our historic themes. Even so, I still don't watch soap operas.

Yeah, that`s why Brazilian soap operas have been very successful here in Venezuela. Our social problem are very similar, so it`s easy for us to relate with the stories....

I can recall 2 Brazilian novels I watched: "El Clon" and "Xica da Silva". Both are terrific!!!