Mexico City, Mexico.- At the beginning of the 2000s, a beautiful story that mixed love, espionage, music and war captivated Cubans. It’s about the soap opera “Watercolor of Brazil”.
This telenovela is a fascinating story that transports us to the golden age of radio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the 1940s. The protagonist, Isa Galvao, a popular music singer, struggles to achieve fame in a world of artists and important political figures.
At the beginning, Isa lives in a small town where she meets an upright soldier, who is there to investigate Felipe, her uncle and suspected of collaborating with a Nazi spy network. That’s how they meet and fall in love, but he leaves.
Later the young woman meets Mario, a bohemian pianist with whom she establishes a relationship. The plot thickens when she must choose between Captain Elio Aguiar, her first love, and Mario López, who had supported her in her career.
The romance takes place in the midst of a series of important historical events, such as the Getúlio Vargas dictatorship and the industrialization of Brazil. The construction of the national steel company in Volta Redonda and the occurrence of World War II are backdrops for this exciting plot.
Characters They are complex and very well developed. Bella Landau, the young Jewish woman who escapes the Holocaust, and Axel Bauer, the Nazi officer who falls in love with her, add an element of tension to the story. He becomes a deserter from the German army to escape with Bella to Brazil.
Acuarela de Brasil is a well-written and immersive telenovela that deftly blends romance, history, and music into a captivating tale.
