# Tieta (TV series)

Tieta is a 1989 Brazilian telenovela, produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It originally aired between August 14, 1989, and March 30, 1990, spanning 196 episodes. It was TV Globo's 41st primetime telenovela, preceded by O Salvador da Pátria and followed by Rainha da Sucata.
It was based on Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's 1977 novel of the same name, and was written by Aguinaldo Silva, Ricardo Linhares and Ana Maria Moretzsohn. It was directed by Reynaldo Boury, Ricardo Waddington and Luiz Fernando Carvalho, under general direction by Paulo Ubiratan.
In June 2012 it was released on DVD by Globo Marcas.

## Production

Helena Gastal and Lessa de Lacerda designed over one thousand costumes for the novel. Iris Gomes da Costa researched expressions cited in the work of Jorge Amado, and colloquial terms of the region, so that the characters spoke with the accent and used the vocabulary of northeastern Brazil.
The fictional city of Santana do Agreste, which according to the storyline is supposed to be an hour by bus from Esplanada in the state of Bahia, was composed of 46 buildings, 2 churches, 8 streets, 2 squares, an abandoned circus and 15 ruins. Everything was built in an area of 10,000m², in Guaratiba, a West Zone neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The street floors were a reproduction of those made in fiberglass by local artisanin in Laranjeiras, a town in the state of Sergipe. Production artists Cristina Médicis, Marta Kubitschek and Andréa Penafiel took local objects and saints statues from Sergipe to Rio de Janeiro, in order to compose the scenography.

## Cast

* Betty Faria - Antonieta (Tieta) Esteves
* Joana Fomm - Perpétua Esteves Batista
* Cássio Gabus Mendes - Ricardo Batista
* José Mayer - Osnar
* Lídia Brondi - Leonora
* Reginaldo Faria - Ascanio Trindade
* Arlete Salles - Carmosina
* Yoná Magalhães - Tonha
* Sebastião Vasconcelos - José (Zé) Esteves
* Tássia Camargo - Elisa Esteves D'Alembert
* Paulo Betti - Timóteo D'Alembert
* Françoise Forton - Helena
* Ary Fontoura - Coronel Artur da Tapitanga
* Marcos Paulo - Arturzinho da Tapitanga / Mirko Stéphano
* Luciana Braga - Maria Imaculada
* Armando Bógus - Modesto Pires
* Bete Mendes - Aída Pires
* Luíza Tomé - Carol
* Roberto Bonfim - Amintas
* Cláudio Corrêa e Castro - Padre Mariano
* Lília Cabral - Amorzinho
* Rosane Gofman - Cinira
* Miriam Pires - Dona Milu
* Rogéria - Ninete / Valdemar
* Paulo José - Gladstone
* Cláudia Ohana - Young Tieta
* José de Abreu - Mascate
* José Lewgoy - Leovegildo
* Herson Capri - Lucas
* Danton Mello - Cupertino (Peto) Batista
* Flávio Galvão - Comandante Dário
* Ana Lúcia Torre - Juraci Pitombo
* Elias Gleizer - Jairo
* Ingra Lyberato - Young Tonha
* Jorge Dória - Padre Hilário
* Otávio Augusto - Marcolino Pitombo
* Marcos Winter - Young Osnar
* Cláudia Magno - Silvana
* Bemvindo Sequeira - Bafo de Bode
* Thaís de Campos - Young Carmosina

## Soundtrack

Tieta spanned two soundtrack albums, Tieta and Tieta 2, both released in 1989. During its reprise, in 1994, Som Livre released an album entitled Tieta Especial, compiling the hit songs of the two original albums. Its cover was similar to that of Tieta 2, with a photo of Betty Faria as Tieta.