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New Beginning

New Beginning

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New Beginning
Year
2012
Broadcaster
RTP
A series by
Inês Gomes
Ana Vasques
Catarina Dias
José Pinto Carneiro
Luís Marques
Sebastião Salgado
Vasco Monteiro
Showrunner
Patrícia Sequeira
Producer
Nuno Marvão
Casting
Cucha Carvalheiro
Inês Rosado
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Synopsis

NEW BEGINNING

 

A family that becomes foreign to their own country...

 

Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away.

In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis.

In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.

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Cast

José Carlos Garcia
Álvaro Mendonça José Carlos Garcia
Ana Nave
Maria do Carmo Mendonça Ana Nave
Catarina Wallenstein
Ana Maria Mendonça Catarina Wallenstein
João Arrais
João Mendonça João Arrais
António Cordeiro
Joaquim Cardoso António Cordeiro
Fátima Belo
Natália Mendonça Cardoso Fátima Belo
João Jesus
Pedro Cardoso João Jesus
Joana de Verona
Luísa Cardoso Joana de Verona
Tomás Alves
Gonçalo Cunha Pereira Tomás Alves
Sara Salgado
Catarina Cunha Pereira Sara Salgado
José Mata
Afonso Cunha Pereira José Mata
António Capelo
Artur Figueiredo António Capelo
Cucha Carvalheiro
Cidália Figueiredo Cucha Carvalheiro
Paulo Pascoal
Filipe Perdigão Paulo Pascoal
João Reis
Daniel Moreira João Reis
Mafalda Vilhena
Joana Moreira Mafalda Vilhena
João Baptista
Jorge Moreira João Baptista
Diogo Infante
Victor Castro Diogo Infante
Ana Padrão
Teresa Castro Ana Padrão
Dinarte Branco
Sílvio Palma Dinarte Branco
João Sá Nogueira
Fernando Esteves João Sá Nogueira
Miguel Borges
Manuel Machado Miguel Borges
António Fonseca
Casimiro Marques António Fonseca
Joaquim Nicolau
Carlos Costa Joaquim Nicolau
Rodrigo Saraiva
Jacinto Sousa Rodrigo Saraiva
António Raminhos
Camilo Rocha António Raminhos
Sandra Faleiro
Odete Barbosa Sandra Faleiro
João Maneira
Paulo Barbosa João Maneira

Álvaro Mendonça

José Carlos Garcia
He was born in Castelo Branco but has been living in Luanda since he was a teenager, where he went in search of a better life. He’s married to Maria do Carmo, with whom he had two children. Álvaro is tenacious and a go-getter. There, he established a chain of refrigerated warehouses that he managed to grow, but when he has to leave Africa, he is forced to relinquish a life of work. In Lisbon he re-encounters his sister Natália and tries to rebuild his life with whatever little he was able to bring over.
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