Mandala (TV series)

Mandala
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Dias Gomes
Directed by	Ricardo Waddington Roberto Talma
Starring	Vera Fischer Nuno Leal Maia Giulia Gam Taumaturgo Ferreira Felipe Camargo Lúcia Veríssimo Gianfrancesco Guarnieri Célia Helena Gracindo Júnior Raul Cortez Oswaldo Loureiro Ângela Leal Milton Gonçalves Ruth de Souza Fafy Siqueira
Opening theme	"Mitos" by César Camargo Mariano
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language	Portuguese
No. of episodes	185
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Original release
Network	TV Globo
Release	12 October 1987 (1987-10-12) – 14 May 1988 (1988-05-14)

Mandala is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 12 October 1987 and ended on 14 May 1988, with a total of 185 episodes. It's the thirty eighth "novela das oito" to be aired on the timeslot. It is created by Dias Gomes and directed by Ricardo Waddington. ^{[1] [2]}

Cast

• Vera Fischer - Jocasta Silveira
• Nuno Leal Maia - Tony Carrado
• Lúcia Veríssimo - Letícia
• Carlos Augusto Strazzer - Argemiro
• Felipe Camargo - Édipo Junqueira
• Gianfrancesco Guarnieri - Túlio Silveira
• Célia Helena - Ceres Silveira
• Gracindo Júnior - Creonte Silveira
• Raul Cortez - Pedro Bergman
• Oswaldo Loureiro - Américo Junqueira
• Ângela Leal - Mercedes Junqueira
• Imara Reis - Vera
• Osmar Prado - Gerson Silveira
• Bia Seidl - Mariana
• Paulo Gracindo - Vovô Pepê (Petronílio Silveira)
• Yara Côrtes - D. Conchita
• Ilka Soares - Lena
• Milton Gonçalves - Apolinário Santana
• Aída Leiner - Eurídice Barbosa Santana
• Grande Otelo - Jonas Caetano Barbosa
• Ruth de Souza - Zezé (Maria José Barbosa)
• Aracy Cardoso - Flora
• Betina Viany - Ondina (Madame Lorrain)
• Jayme Periard - Miguel
• Jandir Ferrari - Toninho Carrado
• Betty Erthal - Dalva
• Lupe Gigliotti - Dona Severina
• Fafy Siqueira - Jupira
• Carlos Kroeber - Dr. Henrique
• Reynaldo Gonzaga - Nando (Fernando)
• Chico Diaz - Rafael
• Maria Alves - Carmem Barbosa Santana
• Marcos Breda - Hans
• Antônio Grassi - Zé Mário
• Chico Tenreiro - Pinto
• Luiz Magnelli - Soneca
• Felipe Martins - Wanderley
• Tony Ferreira
• Waldir Onofre
• Giulia Gam - Jocasta (young)
• Taumaturgo Ferreira - Laio Lunardo (young)
• Suzana Faini - Glória Lunardo (Laio's mother)
• Walmor Chagas - Michel Lunardo
• Marco Antônio Pâmio - Argemiro
• Marcos Palmeira - Creonte
• Deborah Evelyn - Vera (young)
• Lília Cabral - Lena
• Mauro Mendonça - Adroaldo (Vera's father)
• Beatriz Lyra - Estela (Vera's mother)
• Daniel Dantas - Otávio
• Paulo César Pereio - Capitão (smuggler)
• Danton Mello - Gerson
• Marina Miranda - Jocasta's family maid
• Carlos Wilson - Pai-de-santo who helps Laio
• Luiz Sérgio Lima e Silva - Director of Brazilian Communist Party
• Daniel Trindade - Jorge
• Ana Luiza Follay - Laio's secretary
• Júlio Levy - Michel's butler
• Schulamith Yaari - Nurse in the maternity hospital where Édipo was born
• Perry Salles - Laio Lunardo
• Marcelo Picchi - Chris
• Rubens Corrêa - Psychoanalyst of Édipo
• Yara Amaral - Rafael's mother
• Castro Gonzaga - Gilberto
• Francisco Milani - Efigênio
• Breno Bonin - Luís
• Gisela Arnoud - Luciana
• Esmeralda Hannah - Marli
• Rejane Goulart - Beatriz
• Walney Costa - Sinésio
• Luciana Fontenelli - Isabel
• Anna Gallo - Marlucy
• Cleonir dos Santos - Fiapo
• Theresa Mascarenhas - Marcene
• Christovam Netto - Tico-Tico
• Paulo Camargo - Marcos

References

1. "Mandala". Teledramaturgia (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
2. Canal VIVA vai reprisar a novela Mandala Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Mandala at IMDb