O Beijo do Vampiro

O Beijo do Vampiro is a Brazilian soap opera produced by TV Globo, originally broadcast from August 26, 2002 to May 2, 2003 in 215 chapters, with the last chapter re-airing on May 3,

Written by Antônio Calmon with the collaboration of Álvaro Ramos, Eliane Garcia, Lílian Garcia, Maria Helena Nascimento and Mauro Wilson, it was directed by Marcos Paulo, Roberto Naar, Luiz Henrique Rios, Edgard Miranda and Paulo Silvestrini. The general direction was Roberto Naar and Marcos Paulo, who was also the nucleus director.

It had the participation of Tarcísio Meira, Flávia Alessandra, Marco Ricca, Alexandre Borges, Luis Gustavo, Glória Menezes, Júlia Lemmertz and Ney Latorraca.



Plot
In the 12th century, the vampire Duke Bóris Vladescu (Tarcisio Meira) was obsessed with Princess Cecilia (Flávia Alessandra) and murders her fiance, Count Rogério (Thiago Lacerda), to leave the path clear, although the girl also decides to kill herself to escape him. Eight hundred years later, Boris is married to Mina (Cláudia Raia), a jealous and frustrated vampire for not being able to have a child. When a girl with whom he had an affair becomes pregnant and dies in childbirth, Boris decides to steal a newborn from the maternity ward and leave it in an orphanage, putting his own son in the place without anyone knowing so that he would be protected from Mina's wrath until the day his powers developed. Thirteen years have passed and Boris urgently needs to find his son so that the race of vampires does not become extinct due to a curse. He discovers that the heir, Zeca (Kayky Brito), was created by Lívia and Beto, the reincarnations of Cecília and Rogério – the latter whom he kills again in a plane crash. Livia then decides to rebuild her life in Maramores, where her mother Zoroastra (Glória Menezes) lives, who has great powers to manipulate potions. Zeca becomes a great friend of the homeless Renato (Thiago Farias), Lívia's real son, who fled the orphanage's abuse and awakens in the girl an inexplicable feeling of affection.

Boris arrives in Maramores under the pseudonym Igor Pivomar, ready to conquer his beloved and her son. But he has to deal with the prosecutor Augusto (Marco Ricca), the only one able to catch Lívia's attention and who lives at war with Armando (Eduardo Galvão), a greedy businessman who wants to destroy the historic part of the city to build a shopping mall. . Augusto is the father of Gui (Bernardo Castro Alves) and Beatriz (Cecília Dassi) – a temperamental girl who becomes the great love of Zeca's life – and the biggest object of desire for his sister-in-law Marta (Júlia Lemmertz), a woman in the greatest "stepmother" style evil" who, at one point, becomes a vampire and unites with Boris to harm the couple. Rodrigo (Alexandre Borges) also enters the fight for Lívia's heart after being temporarily possessed by Boris and realizing that she owns his heart, irritating his ex-girlfriend, the sensual Lara (Deborah Secco), who does not accept being passed over and ends up being "vampirized" by the seductive and unscrupulous Victor (Gabriel Braga Nunes). There is also the virginal Ciça (Bianca Castanho), who dates Roger (Mário Frias) and is secretly loved by the doctor Carlos (Sérgio Menezes), but is really attracted to Victor, who ends up becoming obsessed with her, to the point of sucking its vital energy and leaves it weaker and weaker, at the limit of life.

In the city also lives the humble Lucia (Maytê Piragibe), who was raped in her teens when she lived in the countryside and who is afraid of giving herself to Baratão (Celso Bernini) because of the traumas of the past. Galileu (Luis Gustavo), on the other hand, is a ghost hunter from the old days, who will have to deal with the emergence of several new vampires, such as the doctor Petra (Rosane Gofman) and the rambunctious Amélie (Betty Gofman), a partner in Mina and who becomes involved with the hunter's son, the frustrated musician Bartô (Tato Gabus Mendes). Amidst all the confusion that becomes Maramores, Zeca must learn to deal with the strange sensations and supernatural changes that are happening with the arrival of adolescence, transforming him into a vampire of unparalleled powers. Between the first love he lives with Beatriz, the family that grew up thinking it was his and the revelation that he is heir to the most powerful of vampires, the boy will live new and fascinating adventures.