Season 1 • Episode 77
LatestNaïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.
Acting
Juliana Paes owns every frame with magnetic, unapologetic presence.
Production
Lush 1920s Bahia recreated with obsessive period detail.
Writing
Walcyr Carrasco adapts Jorge Amado with extra soap and spice.
Creator
Walcyr Carrasco
Juliana Paes
Gabriela da Silva Saad
Humberto Martins
Nacib Achcar Saad
Mateus Solano
Raimundo "Mundinho" Falcão
Vanessa Giácomo
Malvina Tavares
Antônio Fagundes
Coronel Ramiro Bastos
Ivete Sangalo
Maria Machadão
Laura Cardoso
Maria Doroteia Leal
José Wilker
Coronel Jesuíno Mendonça
Luiza Valdetaro
Gerusa Bastos Falcão
Giovanna Lancellotti
Lindinalva Leal (Linda)
Marco Pigossi
Juvenal Leal
Leona Cavalli
Risoleta (Zarolha)
Maitê Proença
Dona Sinhazinha Guedes Mendonça
Erik Marmo
Dr. Osmundo Pimentel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the second TV adaptation of Jorge Amado's 1958 novel—the first in 1975 made Sônia Braga a star and became a cultural phenomenon across Latin America.
The 2012 version deliberately amped up the sensuality and shortened the political subplot, sparking debate about whether it honored or betrayed Amado's class-conscious original.
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