Roque Santeiro
In the tiny poor town of Asa Branca, in the middle of Brazilian Northeast, Roque Santeiro is worshiped as a saint. He was supposedly killed by a bandit, 18 years ago, trying to save the local church. After his disappearance, local leaderships such as landowner Sinhozinho Malta and mayor Florindo, took profit on that to control the humble population. They even make up a widow, Porcina, who should have married Roque secretly before his death. What they don't expect is that Roque is alive, and he's back to, allegedly, "save his people". Now Malta, Florindo, Porcina, and others must hold him down and explain the "truth" to their commoners, in a desperate attempt to save their own bottoms. Meanwhile, mysterious facts surround Asa Branca, such as a Werewolf, a film crew who are trying to shoot a movie about Roque's story, and violent murderers.
Episodes
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 resembl...
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 nev...
Pombinha and Mocinha confront Matilde about the opening of the nightclub, but the dancers stand up to them. Sinhozinho Malta visits the widow Porcina,...
The film crew meets Roque Santeiro's father and brother. The widow, Porcina, seeks out the film's director to discuss the script.
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...
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 shoul...
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 t...
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 he...
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 Ro...
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...
Sinhozinho Malta promises to reopen the Sexus nightclub. Roberto Mathias and Porcina go out together. Linda tries to talk to Lulu, Zé das Medalhas' wi...
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 le...
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 prote...
Porcina meets Dona Marcelina, the mother of Sinhozinho Malta's ex-wife. Professor Astromar prepares to destroy Roque's statue when he is interrupted b...
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 nig...
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...
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.
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 R...
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 Rober...
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...
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 kidna...
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 beca...
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 p...
Dondinha overhears João Ligeiro saying he's in love with another woman. An old acquaintance goes to the nightclub looking for Matilde. Porcina tells M...
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 Robe...
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 t...
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 Rob...
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...
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 heav...
Matilde tells the story of the legend of Roque to Roque himself, without knowing who he is. Roque goes to confess to Father Hipólito.
Father Hipólito faints and Roque begs for forgiveness. Father Hipólito discovers the truth about what happened seventeen years earlier, when a razor-w...
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...
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 lef...
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...
Terêncio catches Roberto and Tânia kissing and tells Sinhozinho Malta, who gets upset. Sinhozinho offers Roque money to disappear from Asa Branca.
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 happene...
Roque appears in the room and Sinhozinho Malta plays a trick to hide him from Pombinha, intriguing everyone. Malta catches Roberto and Tânia together...
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 t...
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.
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...
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...
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 dec...
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 hospi...
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...
Porcina refuses to send Roque away from her house. Marcelina reveals to Pombinha her suspicions about her daughter's death. Marilda, Roberto Mathias'...
Matilde visits Beato Salu, discovers that Roque Santeiro has returned, and tells the girls that the nightclub is finally going to close. Roberto tells...
Gerson decides to give an initial screening of the film to just a few guests. Matilde tells Sinhozinho Malta that she already knows Roque Santeiro is...
Sinhozinho Malta relays the order to reopen the nightclub to Flô. Roque looks for Porcina by the pool. Tânia tells Matilde that they need to talk.
Mocinha refuses to accept the reopening of Matilde's nightclub and resigns from her job at the city hall. Lulu confesses to Father Hipólito her desire...
Upon learning of the nightclub's reopening, Father Hipólito seeks out Matilde. Friar Albano tries to convince Zé das Medalhas to open a daycare center...
(The chapter numbering follows that of the original broadcast, without loss of content or continuity.) Marilda leaves a note for Roberto. Zé das Medal...
Mocinha recounts seeing a woman shooting at Roberto. Marilda runs away. Malta discovers that Roberto is married.
Malta agrees to take Roberto to Rio de Janeiro for surgery. Terêncio tries to poison the holy man Salu, but by mistake, a nurse succeeds, and Salu fal...
Roque goes to the hospital and discovers his father is in a coma. Roque and Porcina sleep together. Roberto undergoes surgery. Tânia suspects Terêncio...
Lulu meets Roque and confesses her feelings to him. Jiló tells Zé das Medalhas that he saw Lulu with another man. Tânia visits Porcina and becomes sus...
In Rio de Janeiro, Sinhozinho Malta goes out with a secretary and invites her to his apartment. Ninon is almost attacked by the werewolf when Rosaly a...
Zé das Medalhas can't find out who the man is who gave Lulu a ride. At the hospital, Roberto wakes up and is surprised to find Marilda, who forcibly k...
Marilda runs away. Tânia asks her father to take Roberto to the farm. Father Hipólito tells the devout women that he wants to disassociate Roque's ima...
Roque hides and Mocinha is presumed insane. Jiló tells Zé das Medalhas that the man he's looking for lives in the widow Porcina's house. Zé das Medalh...
Roque is about to reveal himself to Zé das Medalhas when Porcina intervenes and lies about her identity. Marcelina finds documents in her daughter's r...
Zé looks for Flô, who reminds him of the danger they all face if Roque is discovered. Porcina hugs Roque, says she's very scared, and kisses him.
Marcelina fears that Tânia will discover her father's true character. Matilde doesn't recognize Amparito. Sinhozinho Malta is furious when he discover...
Marcelina says she is going to Rio to solve some problems and Malta suspects that she has seen some document in her room. Malta orders the death of Sa...
Jiló tells Zé das Medalhas that Lulu and Roque were in the hospital together and he decides to buy a revolver. Tito and Linda argue about the factory....
Roque and Sinhozinho Malta argue and Porcina intervenes, preventing one of them from committing a crime. Feeling rejected, the children of Zé das Meda...
Zé das Medalhas discovers that his children are in a shack. Malta and others decide to take justice into their own hands and, at the police station, a...
Porcina demands that Malta bring Roque back to her house, but he refuses to return. A strange man arrives in Asa Branca and asks Lulu where the Sosseg...
Sinhozinho Malta goes to pick up Tânia at the forró dance, but gives up when he sees she's with Roque. Porcina goes to the forró secretly, dances with...
Mocinha sees Roque again, faints, and tells Astromar that Roque wants her to be a virgin. Porcina questions Malta about the wedding, and he says that...
Porcina decides to reveal the truth about her fake marriage to Roque to Father Hipólito, under the condition of confession. Sinhozinho Malta discovers...
Father Hipólito tells Roque and Porcina that he will only officiate at Porcina's wedding to Sinhozinho Malta if they reveal the truth to all of Asa Br...
Porcina is furious with Sinhozinho Malta for paying more attention to Ametista's death than to her problem with Father Hipólito. Malta believes Ametis...
The detective concludes that the cow's death wasn't an attack, but a shot fired in the wrong place. Lulu sees that Zé das Medalhas' gun isn't in the d...
Malta discovers that Zé das Medalhas was responsible for Ametista's death. Sinhozinho tries to convince the priest to perform his marriage to Porcina,...
Marilda arrives in Asa Branca, and Roberto returns to Tânia's house. Marilda calls Sinhozinho Malta, wanting to tell him the truth about her marriage...
Sinhozinho meets Marilda, and they sleep together. Ninon claims to have met the werewolf but does not remember the encounter. Roberto goes to the poli...
Marilda makes a proposition to Roberto; they go to bed together, and she says she will grant the divorce. Sinhozinho Malta goes to visit Salu, who, ev...
Sinhozinho Malta grows concerned about the devout Salu's recovery, and the news quickly spreads throughout the town. Roque and Porcina go for a swim t...
Roque proposes to Porcina the idea of turning the ranch's land into a dairy cooperative. Tânia gets jealous when she sees Roberto saying goodbye to...
Malta suggests that Roque leave Asa Branca, but he refuses. The town is abuzz with Sinhozinho's rodeo event. Ronaldo and Malta make a wager on a horse...
Flô flees the *vaquejada* to avoid running into Amparito. Mocinha tells Pombinha that her father burned a photograph of a woman. João Ligeiro tells Fa...
Pombinha asks Flô about the woman in the photo, but he dodges the question. Zé das Medalhas disguises himself to attack Roque, but he strikes the wron...
Father Albano is grazed by a bullet and concludes that the shots were meant for Roque. Father Albano wants to tell Asa Branca the truth, but Father Hi...
Roque tells Porcina that someone tried to kill him, but she does not believe Sinhozinho is the mastermind behind the crime. Father Albano tells Roque...
Excerpts from the film "Roque Santeiro" will be screened to raise funds for its completion. Widow Porcina and Sinhozinho Malta hatch a plan to stop Ro...
Worried about Roque's disappearance, Father Albano goes to the cinema with Father Hipólito, hoping he will show up. Terêncio attempts to kill the devo...
Beato Salu appears to the pilgrims praying for him. The movie theater catches fire, and everyone rushes out. Roque tells Flô that he really needs to s...
Dressed as a bride and wandering along the road, Mocinha runs into Roque, and the two share a kiss. Porcina suggests to Sinhozinho Malta that they get...
Flô tells Mocinha the truth about Roque. Luizão discovers that Roque's film was a success in the city. Sinhozinho Malta scolds Terêncio for not killin...
Roque appears to the devout Salu like a vision. Matilde offers João Ligeiro a job at the boarding house. Ronaldo tells Pombinha that he is going to op...
Roque says he will live in Asa Branca and uphold the legend of the saint-maker. Porcina says she will secretly marry Sinhozinho in an attempt to persu...
Ninon discovers that the werewolf is Police Chief Feijó. Porcina agrees to turn over her farm to the dairy cooperative. Pombinha decides to organize a...
Jiló sees Ronaldo and Lulu together and demands something in exchange for not telling Zé das Medalhas. Pombinha says she will speak to Police Chief Fe...
Roque asks Malta to pay the rent for the country house where he intends to live. Pombinha organizes the start of the procession. Police Chief Feijó tr...
The devout women try to pray the rosary in front of the Sexus nightclub, but the procession is interrupted by a heavy storm. Lulu runs into the proces...
In confession, Lulu tells Father Hipólito that she kissed another man. Tânia says she doesn't like Porcina but cannot interfere with her father's choi...
Marcelina backs down upon realizing she has no evidence against Sinhozinho Malta. The police chief authorizes the opening of the gambling den. Roque r...
Matilde and Ronaldo discuss the mysteries surrounding Roque's death and Navalhada's arrest. Asa Branca prepares for the fair, where Matilde will have...
Porcina and Malta convince Flô to ask Father Hipólito to dissuade Roque from seeing Mocinha. Pombinha desperately tries to find out what Matilde is go...
Porcina and Roque lie to Tânia. Odete, a former employee of Malta's, returns to town, and Sinhozinho orders Terêncio to go after her. Odete hides at t...
Terêncio looks for Odete at Ifigênia's house, but she says she doesn't know her sister's whereabouts. Odete calls Sinhozinho Malta's house but hangs u...
Under pressure, Sinhozinho Malta tells Terêncio the truth about Roque. The fair opens, and Matilde reveals what she will be selling at her stall. Moci...
Restrained by Flô's presence, Roque and Mocinha talk about the past without touching each other. Matilde's stall is a hit at the fair. Tito wakes up a...
Flô tells Sinhozinho Malta about her history with Amparito. Duarte tries to make contact with Navalhada. Porcina asks Roque to leave Asa Branca as soo...
Roque refuses to leave the town. Navalhada, contacted by a friend of Ronaldo, says that one day he will return to Asa Branca. Roque decides to start w...
Roque arranges to meet Gerson to discuss the film's production, without revealing his identity. Terêncio sees Marcelina leaving the farm in a taxi and...
Sinhozinho Malta asks Terêncio to follow Marcelina. Odete tells Marcelina that Margarida killed herself because she discovered the affair between Malt...
Odete is taken to the hospital. Terêncio asks the farm maids to confirm his alibi. Marcelina tells Tânia the whole truth about her mother's death.
Sinhozinho Malta confesses everything to Tânia, and she says she will never forgive her father. Mocinha asks to live with Roque. Malta avoids Porcina,...
Cast
José Wilker
Luis Roque Duarte ("...
Regina Duarte
Porcina da Silva ("V...
Lima Duarte
Francisco Malta ("Si...
Paulo Gracindo
Padre Hipôlito
Yoná Magalhães
Matilde
Ary Fontoura
Florindo Abelha
Eloísa Mafalda
Ambrosina Abelha ("D...
Lucinha Lins
Mocinha Abelha
Armando Bógus
José Aragão ("Zé das...
Cássia Kis
Lugolina Aragão (Don...
Lídia Brondi
Tânia Malta
Wanda Kosmo
Marcelina
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