Walter George Durst (Writer)

Tocaia Grande

Release Date1995-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriters' Assistant

Episode Count236

Os Gigantes

Release Date1979-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Obrigado, Doutor

Release Date1981-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count24

Vote Count1

Gabriela

Release Date1975-04-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count132

Vote Count10

Os Ossos do Barão

Os Ossos do Barão is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from April 28 to September 8, 1997. It is an adaptation of Jorge Andrade's 1963 play of the same name, adapted for television by Walter George Durst, with collaboration from Duca Rachid, Mário Teixeira, and Marcos Lazarini. The telenovela stars Ana Paula Arósio, Tarcísio Filho, Juca de Oliveira, Othon Bastos, and Leonardo Villar. Set in São Paulo in 1948, the story follows Egisto Ghirotto, the wealthy son of Italian immigrants who dreams of gaining social prestige by marrying his son, Martino, to Isabel, the great-granddaughter of the late Baron of Jaraguá. Their romance sparks a bitter conflict between a rising immigrant family and a declining aristocratic dynasty, exposing themes of class, ambition, tradition, and the social transformation of Brazil.

Release Date1997-04-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count115

Vote Count2

Gente Fina

Release Date1990-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count138

Vote Count1

Carga Pesada

Release Date2003-04-29

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count13

A Cor da Sua Pele

Release Date1965-07-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count63

Vote Count1

Nina

Release Date1977-06-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count145

Vote Count2

Terras do Sem Fim

The central theme of the soap opera is the struggle for political control in the interior of Bahia between the two most powerful *coronéis* (landowning bosses) of the cocoa region: Sinhô Badaró and Horácio da Silveira. Virgílio, an ambitious lawyer, is summoned to the town by Colonel Horácio but ends up becoming involved with Ester, the colonel's wife. Captain João Magalhães is a card sharp who poses as a military engineer, successfully deceiving the entire town. He falls in love with Sinhô Badaró's daughter, Donana. By the end of the story, he reveals that he had only gotten close to the Badarós out of opportunism. After numerous clashes with Sinhô Badaró, Colonel Horácio secures political power in the town of Ferradas, with the acknowledgment of the local population.

Release Date1981-11-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count90

Vote Count1

Anarquistas, Graças a Deus

Adapted from the book by Zélia Gattai, the series portrays her family's memories, addressing, with good humor, the dreams and difficulties experienced by immigrants in São Paulo in 1920

Release Date1984-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count3

Grande Sertão: Veredas

A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.

Release Date1985-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count25

Vote Count3

Gutierritos, o Drama dos Humildes

Release Date1964-12-14

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Memórias de um Gigolô

The story takes place in São Paulo, in the late 1920s, and has Mariano's memories as its starting point. Orphaned, he loses the aunt who raised him and ends up in Madame Iara's brothel, where he meets two people who transform his life: Esmeraldo, a gigolo who loves the good life who becomes his master; and the prostitute Guadalupe, known as Lu, a sweet and extremely sensual woman. Esmeraldo is Lu's boyfriend, whom he loves unconditionally. Mariano enters the couple's lives and ends up falling in love with her, thus forming the love triangle that drives the entire narrative.

Release Date1986-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Vote Count2

Senhora

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Despedida de Casado

Release Date1977-01-03

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count1

A Carrocinha

Man finds a job as a dog catcher, but feels sorry for the animals and sets them free.

Release Date1955-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Rabo de Saia

The miniseries is set in the late 1920s and tells the story of traveling salesman Quequé, who maintains three families in different fictional cities in the Northeast. Eleuzinha, from Nova União, in Pernambuco, is her husband's inseparable companion, with whom she has four children: Iraíldes, Maninho, Laide and Lili. It is with Eleuzinha that Quequé feels at ease, exercising his more liberal side.

Release Date1984-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Vote Count1

Paixão de Gaúcho

In 1836 Brazil, a hawker arrives in a small village in the State of Rio Grande do Sul to avenge the death of a friend. He becomes friends with an outgoing knight, but they start loving the same woman. Besides, Farrapos War begins, and they take different positions in the conflict, leading to rivalry.

Release Date1957-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Um Breve Encontro

Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a movie. They fell in love in this short period together. Based on the story by Noel Coward, and shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.

Release Date1968-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Despedida de Casado

Release Date1977-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Caso Especial: Romeu & Julieta

Release Date1980-12-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

A Vaidosa

An adaptation of Elisabeth Von Armin's novel "Mr. Skeffington", shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.

Release Date1968-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

O Sobrado

Based on Erico Verissimo's masterpiece, O Sobrado follows the Terra-Cambará family during the siege imposed to their house by enemies due to political differences. As the siege goes, the family tensions start to show off.

Release Date1956-05-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Cleópatra

Release Date1962-01-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Memória Vera Cruz: A Recuperação de um Sonho

Release Date1987-08-03