Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1985

Roque Santeiro

Season 1

In Asa Branca, residents live according to the supposed miracles of Roque Santeiro, who is said to have died as a martyr, but reappears years later, threatening the power of the authorities.

Episodes

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Episode 146 min1985-06-24

Chapter 1

Asa Branca is getting a statue of Roque Santeiro seventeen years after the hero saved the city. Dona Mocinha complains that the statue doesn't resemble Roque, her ex-fiancé.

Episode 241 min1985-06-25

Chapter 2

Gerson gets angry at Roque's widow's attitude and tries to file a complaint against her with the police. Mocinha tells Dona Pombinha that she will never marry and will die single.

Episode 337 min1985-06-26

Chapter 3 (Part 1)

Pombinha and Mocinha confront Matilde about the opening of the nightclub, but the dancers stand up to them. Sinhozinho Malta visits the widow Porcina, but she pretends to be ill.

Episode 436 min1985-06-27

Chapter 3 (Part 2)

The film crew meets Roque Santeiro's father and brother. The widow, Porcina, seeks out the film's director to discuss the script.

Episode 539 min1985-06-28

Chapter 4

Porcina orders Gerson to remove Mocinha's scene from the script. Mocinha calls Roberto Mathias for a chat and discovers that he will be playing Roque Santeiro in the film.

Episode 643 min1985-06-29

Chapter 5

Mocinha tries on her wedding dress. At the unveiling of the statue, Mocinha and Widow Porcina have a heated argument, each saying that the other should not be the one being honored.

Episode 746 min1985-07-01

Chapter 6

Tânia tells Roberto that she is not attracted to him. A bomb explodes at the Sexus nightclub before its opening. Mocinha goes to Porcina's house for the statue's unveiling party.

Episode 845 min1985-07-02

Chapter 7

Sinhozinho Malta tells Tânia that he feels lonely. Astromar says he's in love with Mocinha. Tânia asks the farmhands about the accident that killed her mother.

Episode 937 min1985-07-03

Chapter 8

Tânia tells Porcina that she doesn't mind her marrying Sinhozinho Malta, and the two argue. Mocinha tells Zé das Medalhas that she has a relic from Roque Santeiro.

Episode 1041 min1985-07-04

Chapter 9

Roberto Mathias goes to visit Porcina and the two sleep together. Roberto oversleeps and doesn't show up for the recording. Pombinha sees the dancers from the Sexus nightclub at the church.

Episode 1139 min1985-07-05

Chapter 10

Sinhozinho Malta promises to reopen the Sexus nightclub. Roberto Mathias and Porcina go out together. Linda tries to talk to Lulu, Zé das Medalhas' wife, without success. Malta sleeps at the nightclub.

Episode 1254 min1985-07-06

Chapter 11

Mocinha runs to Roque's statue. Malta's mother-in-law appears and says she's going to live on the farm. Roberto Mathias goes to visit Porcina. Lulu leaves home and goes to Matilde's nightclub.

Episode 1359 min1985-07-08

Chapter 12

The nightclub is reopened. Tito is thinking about opening a candle factory in Asa Branca. Pombinha and Mocinha gather the women of Asa Branca to protest against the opening of Sexus.

Episode 1444 min1985-07-09

Chapter 13

Porcina meets Dona Marcelina, the mother of Sinhozinho Malta's ex-wife. Professor Astromar prepares to destroy Roque's statue when he is interrupted by a drunkard.

Episode 1539 min1985-07-10

Chapter 14

Lulu asks Zé to take her to the nightclub. Matilde receives a mysterious letter. Linda and Gerson go to Sexus. The women of the city gather at the nightclub's door with brooms in their hands.

Episode 1637 min1985-07-11

Chapter 15

The women prepare to storm the nightclub, but Matilde and the girls fight back. Linda Bastos is hit. Roberto prepares to flee Porcina's house when he sees Malta arriving.

Episode 1741 min1985-07-12

Chapter 16

Sinhozinho Malta goes to the inn where Roberto Mathias is staying. Porcina sends Mina to the inn with a note telling Roberto not to visit her.

Episode 1843 min1985-07-13

Chapter 17

Mina makes up an excuse for Sinhozinho Malta, and he tells Matilde that he will have to close the nightclub. The note from the widow Porcina reaches Roberto Mathias, but Matilde intercepts it.

Episode 1940 min1985-07-15

Chapter 18

Porcina calls Roberto Mathias. Roberto and Tânia almost kiss. Lulu meets Father Albano and confesses to him. Porcina goes to the inn to look for Roberto.

Episode 2044 min1985-07-16

Chapter 19

Gerson asks Roberto Mathias to get close to the widow Porcina to keep her away from the filming. One of Porcina's henchmen goes to fetch Roberto, but he says he can't go.

Episode 2144 min1985-07-17

Chapter 20

Malta threatens Roberto. Porcina returns alone from the farm and goes to watch a recording of Roberto when she is surprised by Malta. Roberto is kidnapped by Porcina's henchmen.

Episode 2243 min1985-07-18

Chapter 21

Everyone is searching for Roberto, who is taken by the henchmen to Porcina's farm. Tânia goes to find Malta and accuses him of kidnapping Roberto because she suspects they are dating.

Episode 2343 min1985-07-19

Chapter 22

Malta asks Porcina if she is involved in Roberto's disappearance. Gerson declares his love for Linda. Lulu borrows a dress from Linda. Tania goes to pick up Roberto at the inn.

Episode 2444 min1985-07-20

Chapter 23

Dondinha overhears João Ligeiro saying he's in love with another woman. An old acquaintance goes to the nightclub looking for Matilde. Porcina tells Malta she's going to buy her wedding dress.

Episode 2542 min1985-07-22

Chapter 24

Porcina meets Roberto Mathias at the inn. Zé das Medalhas tells Jiló that Mocinha has the original saints made by Roque Santeiro. Tânia looks for Roberto at the boarding house.

Episode 2644 min1985-07-23

Chapter 25

Roberto tells Sinhozinho Malta that he has nothing to do with Tânia. Malta tells the widow Porcina that he is considering allowing Tânia and Roberto to date. Linda buys Porcina's land.

Episode 2742 min1985-07-24

Chapter 26

Tânia argues with Sinhozinho. The tailor Jura, a friend of Matilde, arrives in town to make the widow Porcina's dress. Tânia declares her love for Roberto. Roque returns to town.

Episode 2844 min1985-07-25

Chapter 27

Roque looks for a room at Matilde's inn and is surprised by how much Asa Branca has grown. Roque goes to church and, without anyone seeing, leaves the monstrance on the altar.

Episode 2938 min1985-07-26

Chapter 28

Roque watches the filming of the scene in which he is killed by the gang of the bandit Navalhada. Everyone believes the monstrance descended from heaven. Mocinha faints upon seeing Roque.

Episode 3044 min1985-07-27

Chapter 29

Matilde tells the story of the legend of Roque to Roque himself, without knowing who he is. Roque goes to confess to Father Hipólito.

Episode 3141 min1985-07-29

Chapter 30

Father Hipólito faints and Roque begs for forgiveness. Father Hipólito discovers the truth about what happened seventeen years earlier, when a razor-wielding attack swept through the city, and tells Florindo about it.

Episode 3243 min1985-07-30

Chapter 31

Roque and Porcina meet, but Roque makes no mention of knowing her. Alone with Roque, Porcina tells him that Sinhozinho Malta invented the whole story of her marriage to Roque.

Episode 3345 min1985-07-31

Chapter 32

Roque sleeps at Porcina's house. Sinhozinho Malta, worried, goes home but returns the next day looking for Roque, and Mina informs him that he has left.

Episode 3441 min1985-08-01

Chapter 33

Roque learns that his father has become a saint. Florindo, Father Hipólito, and Sinhozinho Malta go to Roque to tell him what they have decided about his fate, but they cannot reach an agreement.

Episode 3544 min1985-08-02

Chapter 34

Terêncio catches Roberto and Tânia kissing and tells Sinhozinho Malta, who gets upset. Sinhozinho offers Roque money to disappear from Asa Branca.

Episode 3645 min1985-08-03

Chapter 35

Luizão asks Lulu to let his daughter film the scene where, at eight years old, she had a vision of Roque. When Lulu goes to explain how it all happened, she looks ahead and sees Roque.

Episode 3740 min1985-08-05

Chapter 36

Roque appears in the room and Sinhozinho Malta plays a trick to hide him from Pombinha, intriguing everyone. Malta catches Roberto and Tânia together and orders Terêncio to capture the actor.

Episode 3843 min1985-08-06

Chapter 37

Sinhozinho Malta takes Roberto Mathias to his home, surprising his daughter. Mirna sees the saints in Roque's room and discovers that the guest used to be a saint maker.

Episode 3945 min1985-08-07

Chapter 38

Porcina, Sinhozinho Malta, and the mayor meet and ask the priest to tell Roque Santeiro to leave Asa Branca and say that this is God's will.

Episode 4042 min1985-08-08

Chapter 39

Ninon hears the werewolf's howl again. Roque witnesses the end of a pilgrimage by a man who made a promise to Roque Santeiro and carried a cross from Belo Horizonte to Asa Branca.

Episode 4140 min1985-08-09

Chapter 40

Roque says in front of the mayor and the colonel that he needs to tell the truth and asks the priest for advice, who says he can't help him. Ninon and Rosaly arm themselves to welcome the werewolf.

Episode 4241 min1985-08-10

Chapter 41

Beato Salu doesn't believe Roque and makes a scandal. Sinhozinho Malta acts so that Beato Salu doesn't talk too much to the people of the city and decides to have him hospitalized.

Episode 4344 min1985-08-12

Chapter 42

Sinhozinho Malta tries to convince Roque that his father will be well treated at the hospital. The police chief questions Flô about Beato Salu's hospitalization. Ninon goes in search of the werewolf.

Episode 4447 min1985-08-13

Chapter 43

Porcina sees Lulu and Roque talking and gets jealous. Ninon receives an order from the police chief to appear at the station. Gerson kisses Linda, but she slaps him.

Episode 4540 min1985-08-14

Chapter 44

Porcina refuses to send Roque away from her house. Marcelina reveals to Pombinha her suspicions about her daughter's death. Marilda, Roberto Mathias' wife, arrives in Asa Branca.

Episode 4642 min1985-08-15

Chapter 45

Matilde visits Beato Salu, discovers that Roque Santeiro has returned, and tells the girls that the nightclub is finally going to close. Roberto tells Tânia that he is married, and she is shocked.