Torre de Babel (telenovela)

Torre de Babel
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Silvio de Abreu
Directed by	Denise Saraceni
Starring	Glória Menezes Tarcísio Meira Tony Ramos Adriana Esteves Cláudia Raia Edson Celulari Marcos Palmeira Christiane Torloni Letícia Sabatella Sílvia Pfeifer
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language(s)	Portuguese
No. of episodes	203
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	Rede Globo
Original release	May 25, 1998 – January 16, 1999
External links
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Torre de Babel (English: The Babel Tower) is a Brazilian primetime telenovela produced by Rede Globo and broadcast in its traditional schedule of 9 p.m. between May 25, 1998 and January 16, 1999.

Starring Glória Menezes, Tarcísio Meira, Tony Ramos, Edson Celulari, Marcos Palmeira, Letícia Sabatella, Adriana Esteves, Juca de Oliveira, Cláudia Raia, Natália do Valle and Maitê Proença in the lead roles.

The former expert in fireworks, José Clementino gets a job as a bricklayer in the construction of a magnificent shopping center, one of the many works carried out by the construction engineer, César Toledo. During the feast of the ridge, where engineers and workers gather to celebrate the laying of the slab work, Clementino's wife flirts with several men. At one point, when he gives for the missing woman, Mason goes looking for her and is in a far corner of the building having sex with two men. Overcome with rage, Clementino kills his wife and one of the men paddle strokes. The family hears the screams and Toledo contains Clementino, with the help of a group of workers. Shocked by the violence of the employee, the employer called the police, and even later, an indictment against him at trial. His testimony is crucial to the conviction of Clementino, to discover their terrible crimes and audacious, which is a court suspicious.

Twenty years pass, and leaves the chain Clementino. The time he was exposed to the harsh reality of the prison system made him a man even more bitter. Although he tries to rebuild his life, is obsessed by the desire to avenge César Toledo, who deemed to have been largely responsible for his conviction.

César Toledo became a powerful businessman, but leads a life full of troubles. His marriage to Martha is in crisis and practically only be sustained thanks to her efforts. The union once shipwrecked when César finds an old love, the lawyer Lucia Prado, and the two begin a romance. The relationship with the children is not well resolved. The eldest, Henry, administers the affairs of the mall, but has a very different temperament from his father. Extravagant and vain, becomes the inauguration of the Tropical Towers in a pompous carnival event. Alexandre is the middle child of Toledo. A young law student who resents still depend on financial help from his father that he wishes to complete their studies before leaving home. The youngest son, William, is the main source of the torments of the family. Chemically dependent, involved in marginal, he lives fleeing rehab clinics and trying to extort money from relatives and friends to get support his habit. During the inauguration of the mall, after trying to get money without success, he breaks into a motorcycle the main lobby of the building and has to be restrained by security guards.

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