Season 1 • Episode 51
LatestA hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.
Production
Massive scale recreating 16th century Brazil's brutal frontier.
Writing
Maria Adelaide Amaral adapts Erico Verissimo's epic with telenovela swagger.
Acting
Leandra Leal and Alessandra Negrini devour the melodrama.
Creator
Maria Adelaide Amaral
Leandra Leal
Beatriz Ataíde
Leonardo Brício
Tiago Olinto
Alessandra Negrini
Isabel Olinto
Letícia Sabatella
Ana Cardoso
Alexandre Borges
Dom Guilherme Schetz
Vera Holtz
Mãe Cândida Olinto
Mauro Mendonça
Dom Braz Olinto
Claudia Ohana
Antônia Brites
Pedro Paulo Rangel
David Fonseca, o Mestre Davidão
Maria Luísa Mendonça
Margarida Olinto
Leonardo Medeiros
Leonel Olinto
Deborah Evelyn
Basília Olinto Gois
Celso Frateschi
Afonso Gois
Regiane Alves
Rosália Olinto
Caco Ciocler
Bento Coutinho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Erico Verissimo's novel was considered unfilmable for decades due to its scope—Globo spent record 1990s TV budget.
The series sparked national debate about how Brazilian schools sanitize the Jesuit-Indigenous 'reductions' as benevolent rather than colonial.
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