Pilot series of the Brazilian TV series "Newvictim ", the actors of which showed the spectators of several countries a police story, went to the Russian screens on July 15, 1996. And from the first series, all attention was focused on the action taking place there. After all, everything that could be seen in each of the 140 series, it seemed very simple and understandable (well, maybe, except for the love turns of the heroes). But there was still something incomprehensible, leading from the distant past.
The events taking place in the series
The whole story that eventually learnstelevision viewers, takes place in Sao Paulo. It was 1995 year. Quite unexpectedly, the murders of people belonging to a higher society begin. A rainy morning. In the office of one of the offices in the business district of the city, a fatal telephone bell rings. The tube is picked up by Paulo Soares. He spoke for a moment, he leaves his workplace very quickly. He sits down in the elevator. It is noticeable that Soares is worried and in a hurry. He descends and goes out into the street, where he immediately tries to catch the car. But suddenly appeared black car knocking him to death. From this begins a horrific series of murders that occur according to a mysterious Chinese horoscope.
At first, the viewers get the impression that there is nono connection between the victims. But it turns out that they are all united by one secret, which is associated with an event that happened many years ago. After all, all the victims were once complicit in one crime. The tangled ball of intricate events is trying to unravel the daughter of one of the victims - Irene.
Storylines
For its time, the story of the sensational Brazilianthe series "The New Victim", whose actors were selected very carefully, was quite innovative and unusual. In it, besides the standard melodrama, there is also a serious detective line, which strongly resembles the one described by Agatha Christie in The Ten Negroes. Here, too, there is a list of all future victims. Only they, unlike the poem by Christie, are a list of animals of the Chinese horoscope.
The authors of the telenovela brought here a lotsore in the society of topics: in the series you can see adultery; love that occurs between people very young and come to the middle of their life path; did not ignore the problems of prostitution, drug addiction, homosexuality and others.
The secret is revealed
As it usually happens by all rulesdetective genre, the solution of all that is happening on the screen becomes known to the viewer only at the end. The only place where there can be different endings of the same story is almighty television. There is no doubt that the "New Victim" series fell in love with the detective fans. The actors were so convincing that it seemed that everything that was happening on the screen was true. Reality was next. The original Brazilian version of 1995 presents viewers with a single killer. But in the "export" version of the telenovela the killer turns out to be a completely different person.
A change in the ending happened that's why.To buy this series many TV companies expressed their ardent desire. They liked everything except his graduation. The opinion was expressed that the solution is unconvincing. It turned out that the authors of the series also do not really perceive the finale, which was shown in Brazil. So, the series "The New Victim" was slightly changed. The actors have finished this story a little. Therefore, some concessions were made: exclusively for the European audience, the final series was withdrawn again. And in this scenario, the killer was a completely different person.
Competition on the series
When ORT launched one of the mostknown Brazilian TV series, the film almost instantly received the highest rating. The Moscow newspaper decided to organize a competition for the events in the series. The conditions were fairly simple: the audience had to guess who would be the next victim on the list. At that time, there was no Internet in every house; the book that was written on the telenovela, also did not come out yet. People really tried to understand who was next. Everyone tried to win, because the main prize was very fascinating: a trip to Brazil. Indeed, the show "The New Victim" was very interesting. The actors and roles that they played in this telenovela became known in the families of Russians.
In February 1997, fans of the series watched the last series. In a few years (2002-2004) a huge number of TV companies of the regions of Russia will repeat it again.
Actors and Characters
All the heroes without exception areby the will of fate are involved in the intricacies of cruel intrigues. And the audience has only an attempt to go through all the suspects in order to discover the deeply hidden truth.
The sisters of Feretto are very powerful. They live in hatred for each other. But when an enemy appears in their way that is capable of destroying the honor and power of the family, they unite.
The eldest sister - Felomenu - was played by an actressArasi Balabanyan, who won the prize for the best female role after the release of the series. Felomen with the help of her sister Francesca's husband (Teresa Rachel) - Marcelo (Jose Wilker, with whom Russian viewers have already been acquainted) manages the meat-packing plant. This is their family business. And Marcelo has been living a double life for many years. For 20 years, he meets a simple, kind woman, Ana Carvalho (Suzana Vieira), who gave him three wonderful children. She owns a small pizzeria, loves Marcelo and lives hopes that he will marry her. So suddenly the story in the telenovela "The New Victim" turns. The actors tried to play in such a way that no one doubted that everything that was happening on the screen was a cruel reality.
But Marcelo has very different plans, because if hedivorce with Francesca, then leave the family without means of subsistence. In addition, he has a young mistress Isabella, the daughter of the youngest of her sisters, Carmela. Even when the wife dies, Marcelo is not going to marry Ana.
The mystery series "The New Victim" is unusual. Actors and their roles in this telenovela were interesting and memorable viewers. No matter how often they appeared on the screen.
It was Claudia Oana (Isabella Ferreto) who had the brightest role here, because her heroine participated in the most emotional scenes in the series: she was thrown off the stairs and even cut her face with a knife.
Все персонажи новеллы «Новая жертва» вовлечены в a thin web of intrigue and crime, and viewers can only sort out the suspects in an attempt to get to the bottom of the truth. This turned out the series "New Victim". Actors and roles played by them, still delight their fans. And this is not surprising.
