Sangue e Areia is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It is based on the novel Blood and Sand by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. It premiered on 18 December 1967 and ended on 25 June 1968. It was the fifth "novela das oito" to be aired in the timeslot.
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Plot
Juan Gallardo, the son of a bullfighter who died in an enclosure for bullfighting, decides to follow in the steps of his father. Despite his family's opposition, he begins bullfighting and ends up abandoning them altogether. He is later faced with a love triangle with two women: Pillar, a simple young woman who always loved him, and Doña Sol, an aristocrat who is educated and cultured.
Cast
Sangue e Areia is the last telenovela by actor Amilton Fernandes, who portrayed the villain Dom Ricardo Fernandes died in a tragic road accident on 8 April 1968.