Cristal is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from June 5 to October 27, 2006. It is an adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Cristal (1985), created by Delia Fiallo. Adapted by Anamaria Nunes, with collaboration from Maria Lúcia Dahl, Marcelo César Fagundes, Eleusa Mancini, and Rogério Garcia, the telenovela stars Bianca Castanho, Dado Dolabella, Bete Coelho, Marisol Ribeiro, Alexandre Barillari, Giuseppe Oristanio, Bárbara Paz, and Eliana Guttman. The story follows Cristina, a young woman abandoned by her mother, Vitória, shortly after birth and raised in a convent. Years later, Cristina becomes a successful model known as Cristal and unknowingly crosses paths with her biological mother, now a powerful fashion businesswoman. While searching for her identity and a place in the world, Cristina falls in love with João Pedro, but their romance is threatened by family secrets, social differences, jealousy, and the painful revelations about her past.
Cast
Bianca CastanhoCristina de Jesus / Cris / Cristal da Silva
Dado DolabellaJoão Pedro da Silva Ascânio
Bete CoelhoVitória da Silva Ascânio
Giuseppe OristanioAlex Ascânio
Marisol RibeiroMarion Bandeira de Carvalho
Victor WagnerPadre Ângelo de Jesus
Eliana GuttmanDona Luísa
Vera GimenezLucélia Bandeira de CarvalhoLuiz BaccelliErasmo Bandeira de Carvalho
Jonas MelloInspetor Tenente Fonseca
Patrícia MayoDona Zete
Maria Eugênia de DomênicoCelina
Pepita RodríguezVivian Freitas
Martha MellingerMadame Berta Girot
Claudio CuriPadre Francisco
