Jogo Duplo

Jogo Duplo
"Uma aposta de vida, ou de morte" (Portuguese) "A bet of life, or death" (English)
Genre	Romance, Thriller, Comedy
Created by	Artur Ribeiro
Developed by	Plural Entertainment
Directed by	Hugo de Sousa
Starring	João Catarré Sara Prata Diogo Infante Fernanda Serrano (see more)
Opening theme	Bang by Ella Nor
Ending theme	Bang by Ella Nor
Country of origin	Portugal
Original language	Portuguese
No. of episodes	267
Production
Running time	55min
Original release
Network	TVI
Release	November 4, 2017 – November 18, 2018

Jogo Duplo (English: Double Game) was Portuguese telenovela broadcast and produced by TVI. It was written by Artur Ribeiro. The telenovela premiered on November 4, 2017. It is recorded between Portugal (Setúbal and Alcácer do Sal), China (Macau) and Asia (Vietnam).

Plot

After an exile in Macau, João Guerra (João Catarré) decides to return to Portugal to reconquer Margarida (Sara Prata), the lost love of his adolescence and daughter of Afonso (Nuno Homem de Sá) and Maria João Barbosa (Fernanda Serrano) which provoked a separation of the young couple, not last.

Once in his native land, João finds himself in the midst of an ancestral rivalry like Guerra and Barbosa families, in a region that is experiencing a conflict between an urbanity, a rurality and luxury tourism of the coast, and where a cohabitation is not always peaceful.

However, all these conflicts will be eclipsed by a greater external threat when Manuel Qiang (Diogo Infante), João's former boss in Macao, after losing the war with a rival triad, returns to Portugal, determined to conquer a new Business empire, unscrupulous and using all legal and illegal methods.

Iran is their former mentor and tries to gather around them as region forces, for this powerful man can only be defeated if all enemies resolve as their differences and become allies.

Moving on the constantly changing game board, we will have the various sides of a complex society, rich in bombastic events, involving the elements of police, who fight against crime, teachers and students of an arts school, who they try to make a difference through art, journalists who run and search as news, businessmen or popular, working in very different conditions, and a profusion of complex characters in the history where the heroes are capable of terrible acts and the villains will have moments of salvation.

Cast

• João Catarré - João Guerra (Protagonist)
• Sara Prata - Margarida Barbosa (Protagonist)
• Diogo Infante - Manuel Qiang (Antagonist)
• Fernanda Serrano - Maria João Barbosa (Protagonist)
• Afonso Pimentel - Rodrigo Sousa
• Alba Batista - Leonor Neves
• Ana Lopes Gomes - Sónia Mateus
• Ana Varela - Diana Barbosa
• Anna Eremin - Cátia Sobral
• António Melo - Francisco «Ti Chico»
• Bárbara Branco - Sandra Duque
• Diana Costa e Silva - Laura Barbosa Guerreiro
• Duarte Gomes - Diogo Guerra
• Fernando Pires - Miguel Cássio
• Filipe Matos - Fernando Alves «Freddy»
• Graciano Dias - Tiago Venâncio
• Jani Zhao - Susana Wang
• João Brás - Joaquim Sequeira
• João de Brito - Sérgio Sarabando
• João Lagarto - Teodoro Guerra
• Liliana Brandão - Sílvia Cunha
• Luís Esparteiro - Vítor Duque
• Luís Ganito - Renato Nunes
• Luís Nascimento - Zhu
• Manuela Couto - Clara Neves
• Maria Emília Correia - Rosa Trindade
• Maria Hasse - Patrícia Dias
• Nuno Homem de Sá - Afonso Barbosa
• Paula Neves - Marta Monteiro
• Pompeu José - Telmo Carrapatoso
• Rodrigo Tomás - Alexandre Guerra
• Rui Mendes - Padre Sousa
• Sabri Lucas - Óscar Mourão
• Sandra Faleiro - Amália Reis
• Sandra Santos - Emília Venâncio
• Sara Barradas - Gabriela Nunes
• Sérgio Praia - Luís Humberto
• Sofia Arruda - Teresa Santos
• Sofia Grillo - Helena Duque
• Tiago Felizardo - Rafael Borges
• Vitor D’Andrade - Tomás Vaz Melo