For those who enjoy a soap opera, Brazil is fertile ground, as the overwhelming majority of general TV channels in the country transmit, on average, four soap operas daily. Invariably, much of this material eventually goes around the world, being bought and broadcast in other countries. One of the most permeable markets for Brazilian teledramaturgy is, of course, my country, due to its cultural and linguistic proximity. So I watched "The Clone" at least three times. I watched the first time it was broadcast in Portugal, around 1998, and on two other occasions, in which the soap opera was reprized. I can say that it is one of the best soap operas ever made by Brazilians.
The story takes place in Morocco and essentially portrays two stories that intersect. The first concerns the impossible love between Jade, a Muslim girl, and Lucas, a Westerner. The second story concerns Dr. Albieri, a reputed geneticist who is obsessed with human cloning and who, against all the ethical rules of his profession, creates the first human clone and implants it in the belly of one of his patients, the young Deusa, who wanted only to be a mother through artificial insemination.
The soap opera has good and bad moments. There are more improbable scenes but the good construction of the story makes us ignore that. Much of it was filmed in Brazil but there are many scenes that were actually filmed in Morocco. There is still an extension of the soap opera where drugs and addiction subject is introduced, in a somewhat abrupt and uninteresting way. Several Brazilian good actors were in this work but I would emphasize, for their good performance, Murilo Benício, Vera Fischer, Reginaldo Faria, Letícia Sabatella and Stênio Garcia.
The story takes place in Morocco and essentially portrays two stories that intersect. The first concerns the impossible love between Jade, a Muslim girl, and Lucas, a Westerner. The second story concerns Dr. Albieri, a reputed geneticist who is obsessed with human cloning and who, against all the ethical rules of his profession, creates the first human clone and implants it in the belly of one of his patients, the young Deusa, who wanted only to be a mother through artificial insemination.
The soap opera has good and bad moments. There are more improbable scenes but the good construction of the story makes us ignore that. Much of it was filmed in Brazil but there are many scenes that were actually filmed in Morocco. There is still an extension of the soap opera where drugs and addiction subject is introduced, in a somewhat abrupt and uninteresting way. Several Brazilian good actors were in this work but I would emphasize, for their good performance, Murilo Benício, Vera Fischer, Reginaldo Faria, Letícia Sabatella and Stênio Garcia.