Nos Tempos do Imperador

Nos Tempos do Imperador is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It aired from 9 August 2021 to 4 February 2022. The telenovela is written by Thereza Falcão and Alessandro Marson, with the collaboration of Duba Elia, Júlio Fischer, Lalo Homrich, Mônica Sanches and Wendell Bendelack. It stars Selton Mello, Mariana Ximenes, Gabriela Medvedovski, Michel Gomes, Alexandre Nero, Heslaine Vieira, Daphne Bozaski and Letícia Sabatella in the main roles. Plot In 1856, the emperor Dom Pedro II (Selton Mello) lives a marriage of appearances with Teresa Cristina (Letícia Sabatella), with whom he was forced to marry at a young age by their parents' political alliance, having with her two daughters: Isabel (Giulia Gayoso) and Leopoldina (Bruna Griphao). Dom Pedro is in love with Countess Luísa (Mariana Ximenes), an educated woman, who fights for the abolitionist cause and for the rights of women, married to Eugênio (Thierry Tremouroux), the emperor's cousin. At the same time there are sisters Pilar (Gabriela Medvedovski) and Dolores (Daphne Bozaski): the first went to a convent after her mother's death in childhood, growing up among books and dreaming of studying medicine, while the second stayed at home to take care of her father, Colonel Eudoro (José Dumont), growing repressed and illiterate. Upon returning home and discovering that she was promised in marriage to Tonico (Alexandre Nero), a bad-tempered politician and twice her age, Pilar flees and, on her way, falls in love with the fugitive slave Jorge (Michel Gomes), who doesn't even imagine being the illegitimate son of Colonel Ambrósio (Roberto Bonfim) and Tonico's half brother. With the escape, Dolores is given in marriage to Tonico in the place of Pilar, suffering several mistreatments for being considered "ugly" by him, who does not give up obsessively pursuing Pilar and punishing Samuel, in addition to plotting a coup d'état against Dom Pedro II in a dirty political game. Pilar and Samuel still have as an obstacle Zayla (Heslaine Vieira), who also likes Samuel and is willing to do anything to harm her rival, being the daughter of Cândida (Dani Ornellas) and Olu (Hoji Fortuna), who founded the Little Africa neighborhood, which welcomes freed blacks to give it the opportunity for growth.