Amor à Vida

Amor à Vida
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Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Walcyr Carrasco
Starring	Paolla Oliveira Malvino Salvador Mateus Solano Antônio Fagundes Susana Vieira Eliane Giardini Klara Castanho Vanessa Giácomo
Opening theme	"Maravida" by Daniel
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language	Portuguese
No. of episodes	221
Production
Executive producer	Wolf Maia
Production locations	Brazil and Peru
Camera setup	Multiple-camera setup
Running time	70 minutes
Original release
Network	Rede Globo
Release	20 May 2013 – present

Amor à Vida (Template:Lang-en) is a Brazilian primetime telenovela created by Walcyr Carrasco. It premiered on 20 May 2013 on Rede Globo at 9 pm timeslot.

Paolla Oliveira and Malvino Salvador star as the protagonists, while Mateus Solano, Vanessa Giácomo and Juliano Cazarré star as the antagonists.

Plot

First Phase

2001 – The story revolves around a wealthy family's struggles for control of the renowned San Magno Hospital, in São Paulo. The hospital belongs to the Khoury family, headed by general practitioner César Khoury (Antonio Fagundes). Most of the family are doctors: Caesar's wife, Pilar (Susana Vieira), is a retired dermatologist and Paloma (Paolla Oliveira), the couple's youngest daughter, has just been accepted to a college to study medicine after several unsuccessful attempts in other areas. Only Felix (Mateus Solano), the eldest son, shows no motivation to follow the same career, but he does not lack ambition. Since he could not be a doctor, Felix studied administration so he could work on the hospital board and plans to one day head the family business. Felix is gay, but married a stylist, Edith (Barbara Paz), to keep up appearances.

To commemorate Paloma's acceptance into college, the family travels to Machu Picchu in Peru, where Paloma meets Ninho (Juliano Cazarré). Ninho is a backpacker who adopts a lifestyle free of rules and Paloma falls in love with him. Tired of fighting with her mother, she decides to leave the family and college to live with Ninho. The couple spends about a year hitchhiking aimlessly around South America, living in intense passion, until Paloma discovers she is pregnant. Without money and thinking about the baby's future, she decides to return to her parents' home in São Paulo, and convinces Ninho to go with her.

To pay for the ticket, Ninho decides to smuggle drugs during the trip. However, Ninho is detained at the airport in Bolivia after being found with drugs on his body. Paloma flies back to São Paulo alone and trusts her brother to help her face their family. Felix convinces his sister that it would be better to keep her pregnancy a secret. Back in her parents' house, Felix's wife, Edith, helps Paloma disguise her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes to avoid raising suspicion. Near the end of Paloma's pregnancy, Ninho leaves prison and goes to São Paulo. Felix pretends to help the couple, but really he plans to get rid of them and become the sole heir of the family. Paloma decides to leave home to be with Ninho, but is caught by her parents who are shocked to realize that she is expecting a baby. After arguing with her mother, Paloma leaves and spends the night in a bar with Ninho. After a lot of drinking to celebrate his release from jail, Ninho has a nasty argument with Paloma and says he does not want to start a family. Very disappointed, Paloma sends him away. In her state of anxiety Paloma goes into premature labor, and ends up giving birth to a girl in the bathroom of the bar with the help of bar patron Marcia (Elizabeth Savalla), a former "chacrete" (TV dancer). Felix, who had gone in search of his sister, arrives at the bar to find Paloma unconscious in the bathroom with no one but her newborn daughter at her side. Marcia had called an ambulance and left for fear of being arrested.

Feeling threatened by the infant heir of the Khoury family, Felix kidnaps the child and leaves her in a dumpster in an alley. When she awakes, Paloma cannot find the baby and is convinced that her daughter was mysteriously stolen without a trace. Paloma's path will soon intersect with Bruno (Malvino Salvador), a kind man who just lost his wife and his newborn son due to complications in childbirth. While distressed by that incident, and wandering the streets, Bruno finds Paloma's daughter in a dumpster after he hears her crying. Bruno sees the incident as a divine sign, a chance for him to start a new life, and takes the baby girl home. Bruno receives help from his mother, a nurse named Ordália (Eliane Giardini), who works at the San Magno hospital, as well as an ob/gyn named Glauce (Leona Cavalli). Glauce helps Bruno keep the baby without having to go through the formal adoption process. He asks Glauce to change the hospital record to report that his wife gave birth to two children: a boy, who died, and a surviving girl. In love with Bruno, Glauce does what he asks, risking her career. A pact is made between Bruno, Ordália, and Glauce that this secret will never be revealed.

Second Phase

2013 – 12 years have passed, and Paloma, after ending her relationship with Ninho, apologizes to her parents and decides to follow a medical career working as a pediatrician at her father's hospital. She chooses pediatrics so that she can work with kids to compensate for the loss of her daughter, whom she believes is still alive somewhere. What Paloma does not realize is that her missing daughter is one of her most beloved patients: Paula (Klara Castanho), a very sweet and smart girl. Paloma has always had a very strong and affectionate bond with Paula, regardless of the fact that Paula is actually Paloma's daughter, and her closeness to Paula forces her to cross paths with Bruno, Paula's father. Paloma and Bruno, who had met years earlier when Paloma had admitted and nursed Paulinha unaware that she was really her daughter. The two separate, but before they realize, they are living together again. Paulinha especially approves of the relationship because she loves Paloma.

United by fate, Bruno, Paloma and Paula are happy until Ninho returns to Brazil determined to regain his relationship with Paloma. Fate holds moments of joy and sadness, revelations and dilemmas. At one point, Paula suffers a serious illness and blood tests reveal that Paloma is the only one who can donate an organ, due to the extremely close similarity of their blood. Suspicious, Paloma secretly orders a DNA test and discovers that Paula is her daughter. She becomes convinced that Bruno stole her daughter twelve years earlier, and their once-close relationship turns to hate. With Ninho, Paloma decides to take Bruno to court to regain custody of Paula. What Paloma cannot imagine is that the real culprit for all this is her brother, Felix, who now, in addition to Paloma, has another a obstacle in his path: Paulinha. Felix is aided by Glauce, who previously in love with Bruno, is happy to hurt Paloma in any way possible. Bruno hires lawyer Silvia (Carol Castro) to defend him. After working together, Bruno falls in love with Silvia.

In addition, the marriage of Caesar and Pilar is threatened by the arrival of the new medical secretary, Aline (Vanessa Giacomo), a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past who will do anything to seduce the head of the hospital and gain revenge on César, who she believes is responsible for the tragedies in her young life.

Side Plots

Also depicted is the gay couple, Niko (Thiago Fragoso)and Eron (Marcello Antony), who plan to have a child through artificial insemination. They ask Niko's close friend Amaryllis (Danielle Winits) to be their surrogate, but she falls in love with Eron creating a love triangle that threatens to ruin Niko and Eron's relationship.

Cast

Paolla Oliveira as Paloma.

Malvino Salvador as Bruno.

Antônio Fagundes as César.

Suzana Vieira as Pilar.

Elizabeth Savalla as Márcia.

Vanessa Giácomo as Aline.

Actor	Character
Paolla Oliveira	Paloma Khoury
Malvino Salvador	Bruno dos Santos Araújo
Mateus Solano	Félix Khoury
Susana Vieira	Pilar Khoury
Antônio Fagundes	César Khoury
Vanessa Giácomo	Aline Noronha
Juliano Cazarré	Joachim Roveri (Ninho)
Eliane Giardini	Ordália Aparecida dos Santos Araújo
José Wilker	Herbert Marques
Elizabeth Savalla	Márcia do Espírito Santo (Tetê Para-Choque e Para-Lama)
Tatá Werneck	Valdirene do Espírito Santo (Valdelícia)
Anderson Di Rizzi	Carlos José dos Santos Araújo (Carlito)
Klara Castanho	Paula Sousa Araújo (Paulinha)
Bárbara Paz	Edith Sobral Khoury
Luís Mello	Atílio Pimenta Camargo / Alfredo Gentil
Maria Casadevall	Patrícia Mileto
Fernanda Machado	Leila Melo Rodriguez
Ary Fontoura	Dr. Lutero Moura Cardoso
Caio Castro	Michel Gusmão
Marina Ruy Barbosa	Nicole Veiga de Assis
Sophia Abrahão	Natasha Veiga de Assis
Ricardo Tozzi	Thales Brito
Danielle Winits	Amarylis
Leona Cavalli	Glauce de Sá Benites
Fabiana Karla	Perséfone Fortino (P)
Carol Castro	Sílvia Brandão
Marcello Antony	Eron Mesquita
Nathalia Timberg	Bernarda Rodriguez
Rosamaria Murtinho	Tamara Gouveia Sobral
Thiago Fragoso	Niko Mesquita
Fúlvio Stefanini	Denizard Trajano Araújo
Bel Kutner	Joana Rangel
Júlio Rocha	Jacques Sampaio
Thalles Cabral	Jonathan Sobral Khoury
Christiane Tricerri	Vega Azevedo Pimenta Camargo
Françoise Forton	Gisela Borba de Andrada Lemos (Gigi)
Kiko Pissolato	Maciel Pereira
Carolina Kasting	Regina Maria dos Santos Batista (Gina)
Lucas Romano	Luciano dos Santos Araújo
Maria Maya	Alejandra Reys Moreno
Álamo Facó	Renan
Rodrigo Andrade	Daniel Melo Rodriguez
Vera Zimmerman	Simone Maia
Ângela Rebello	Lidia
Neusa Maria Faro	Maria Cecília Esteves (Ciça)
Genézio de Barros	Amadeu Campos Rodriguez
Bruna Linzmeyer	Linda Melo Rodriguez
Emílio Orciollo Netto	Murilo de Andrada Lemos Corrêa
Cristina Mutarelli	Priscila Khoury
Thavyne Ferrari	Sandra Alves Corrêa (Sandrinha)
Rainer Cadete	Rafael
Sandra Corveloni	Neide Melo Rodriguez
Pierre Baitelli	Laerte Torres
Mouhamed Harfouch	Pérsio Khoury
Paula Braun	Rebecca Esther
Celso Bernini	Jefferson Mattos
Marcelo Schmidt	Valentin Reys Moreno
Daniel Rocha	Rogério
Vera Mancini	Maristela
Renata Castro Barbosa	Marilda Fernandes
Nathália Rodrigues	Elenice Marinelli
Marcelo Argenta	Vanderlei Brandão
Felipe Titto	Wagner Carvalho
Carol Rainato	Raquel
Ângela Dip	Vívian
Camila Chiba	Noriko Akiyoshi
Raquel Villar	Inaiá Seixas
Josie Antello	Adriana
André Garolli	Vinicius Frazão
Gabriel Chadan	Adoniran
Ana Carbatti	Judith
Míriam Lins	Verônica
Marcelo Flores	Rinaldo
Adriano Toloza	Ivan Coelho
Vera Ferreira	Sirlange
Renata Tobelem	Dirce
Camila Czerkes	Valéria Ferraz
Gabriela Duarte	Luana de Sousa Araújo
Carlos Machado	Ignácio
Márcio Garcia	Gustavo Donato (Guto)

Special appearances

• Neymar
• Alexandre Pato
• Luciano Huck
• Gustavo Borges
• Gusttavo Lima
• Vitor Belfort
• Valesca Popozuda
• Anitta
• Rita Cadillac

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated	Result
2013	Meus Prêmios Nick	Favorite Actress	Tatá Werneck	Nominated
		Favorite Actor	Mateus Solano	Won
		Favorite Character	Valdirene (Tatá Werneck)	Nominated
	Prêmio Extra de Televisão	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Won
		Best Lead Actress	Paolla Oliveira	Nominated
			Susana Vieira	Nominated
		Best Lead Actor	Antonio Fagundes	Nominated
			Malvino Salvador	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Won
			Fernanda Machado	Nominated
			Vanessa Giácomo	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Anderson Di Rizzi	Nominated
			Luis Mello	Nominated
		Best Female Revelation	Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
		Best Child Performance	Klara Castanho	Won
		Best Musical Theme	"Maravida" - (Daniel)	Nominated
			"Meiga e abusada" - (Anitta)	Nominated
			"Piradinha" - (Gabriel Valim)	Nominated
		Ídol teen	Caio Castro	Won
	Capricho Awards	Best Actress	Tatá Werneck	Won
			Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Marina Ruy Barbosa	Nominated
		Best Actor	Caio Castro	Won
		Best Kiss	Caio Castro and Maria Casadevall	Nominated
	Prêmio Jovem Brasileiro	Best Actor	Caio Castro	Won
		Best Actress	Marina Ruy Barbosa	Nominated
	Troféu APCA	Best Actor	Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Actress	Elizabeth Savalla	Won
			Tatá Werneck	Nominated
	Retrospectiva UOL	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Nominated
		Best Actress	Susana Vieira	Nominated
		Best Actor	Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Villain	Vanessa Giácomo	Nominated
			Mateus Solano	Won
		Best Couple	Tatá Werneck and Anderson Di Rizzi	Nominated
			Paolla Oliveira and Malvino Salvador	Nominated
			Caio Castro and Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Marina Ruy Barbosa and Ricardo Tozzi	Nominated
		Best Male/Female Revelation	Maria Casadevall	Nominated
			Tatá Werneck	Won
2014	Troféu Internet	Best Telenovela	Walcyr Carrasco	Pending
		Best Actor	Antonio Fagundes
			Caio Castro
			Malvino Salvador
			Mateus Solano
		Best Actress	Elizabeth Savalla
			Paolla Oliveira
			Susana Vieira
			Vanessa Giácomo
		Revelation	Maria Casadevall
			Tatá Werneck

Soundtrack

1. "Piradinha" - Gabriel Valim
2. "Pontes Indestrutíveis - Charlie Brown Jr.
3. "As Mina Pira na Balada" - Gusttavo Lima
4. "Meiga e Abusada" - Anitta
5. "As Curvas da Estrada de Santos" - Lulu Santos feat. Késia Estácio
6. "Trem das Onze" - Zeca Pagodinho
7. "O Amor em Paz" - Ivete Sangalo
8. "Um Ser Amor" - Paula Fernandes
9. "Fofinha Delícia" - Sorriso Maroto
10. "Amor, Amor" - Wanessa
11. "Combustível" - Ana Carolina
12. "Você Não Poderia Surgir Agora" - Roberta Sá
13. "Caio no Suingue" - Pedro Luis e a Parede
14. "Na Selva de Pedra" - Conexão Baixada
15. "Maravida" - Daniel
16. "Amor à Vida" - Nando Reis
17. "Dançando na Garoa" - Jammil
18. "Sambas Urbanos" - Rodrigo Pita

Ratings

Main articles: Rede_Globo § 2004–present: loss of interest in telenovelas, and Television in Brazil § Audience decline

In its pilot chapter, the novel registered 35 rating points in São Paulo, equivalent to 2,16 million households. In Florianópolis, it was estimated that about 3,5 million viewers have watched the pilot of the novel, with 67% audience share, recording 42.02 points in IBOPE.