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Cobras & Lagartos

Cobras & Lagartos
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Genre Telenovela
Created by João Emanuel Carneiro
Starring Mariana Ximenes
Carolina Dieckmann
Taís Araújo
Daniel de Oliveira
Henri Castelli
Lázaro Ramos
Opening theme "Alô, Alô Marciano"
Composer(s) Elis Regina
Country of origin Brazil
Original language(s) Portuguese
No. of episodes 179
140 (International version)
Production
Running time 65 minutes
Release
Original network Rede Globo
Original release April 24 – November 18, 2006
Chronology
Preceded by Bang Bang
Followed by Pé na Jaca
External links
globo.com/cobras

Cobras & Lagartos is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from April 24 and November 18, 2006, totaling 179 episodes.

Featured Mariana Ximenes, Daniel de Oliveira as main protagonists, within Carmo Dalla Vecchia and Cléo Pires as co-protagonists. Lázaro Ramos and Taís Araújo as co-antagonists becoming co-protagonists, and Henri Castelli and Carolina Dieckmann in the lead antagonists/villain roles.

The plot was nominated in 2007 for best actor Emmy for his performance of Lázaro Ramos.

Omar Pasquim (Francisco Cuoco) is a rich millionaire owner of the large network of luxury shops, Luxus, which sells clothing to jewelry. The entrepreneur has a disease that affects his life and has only a few months of survival. He knows this and fears that his inheritance go into the hands of those who do not deserve. Omar is from a poor background and worked hard all his life to build his empire.

As never married nor had children, Omar has as heirs his sister, hilarious and tricky Milu Montini (Marília Pêra), and his nephews, the ruthless and perverse Leona (Carolina Dieckmann), the Bel (Mariana Ximenes) desajuízado Tomas (Leonardo Miggiorin) and graceful. All of these, only Bel Millionaire deserves consideration, because the others are selfish parasites. The curious thing is that his favorite niece lives at odds with him because he considers selfish, rude and greedy. And she never tires of telling him I did not want a penny of his inheritance. Meanwhile, Milu who lives a case with the scoundrel hiding Octaviano (Herson Capri) decides to put into practice by the Octaviano and his son Tomas a plan to defeat Omar and steal all the wealth of the millionaire.

Meanwhile, other relatives of Omar and even people close to him and his family does not belong to the most sordid plot plans to put his hands on his fortune. To know the real intentions of each of these people, Omar masquerades as a friendly janitor, named as Pereira and watch the nest of snakes and lizards in which he lives, without knowing that the millionaire is close by.


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