Jaime Monjardin is a famous Brazilian television director, screenwriter and producer. He is the author of many popular TV series. “Clone” is one of the last telenovelas of Monjardin, which literally conquered the whole world, and the actors who played in the series became real stars.
Biography
Jaime was born in Sao Paulo in 1956. His father (Andre Matarazzo) was a successful entrepreneur, and his mother Maiza Monjardim was a creative person: actress, singer and composer.
Unfortunately, the boy lost his father early, and mother often toured. Until seventeen, Jaime lived in a boarding school in Spain. Then his mother took him, and he went on tour with her. In a short time they managed to live in Morocco, Switzerland and Italy. Despite frequent relocations, the mother tried to give her son a good education, he was an inquisitive boy and studied at good educational institutions.
Jaime loved his mother very much and was proud of her. According to the future director, it was she who was his main example and teacher in life.
After Maiza Monjardim passed away, an adult Jaime made a documentary about his mother called Just Maiza. This was the first work of Monjardim as a director.
In 1979, this painting brought Jaime victory at the Penedo festival.
Career
In 1983, the first Monjardim series was released - Iron Hand. In the same year, the director began to collaborate with the movie studio "Globo". Over the next five years, he shot more than ten telenovelas.
Among his works of that time, it is worth noting the series: Senorita, The Right to Love, I am back to you, Rocky the Sanctum, and others.
In 1988, Monjardim became the art director on the Manshet television channel, which is a direct competitor to Globo. While working here, Jaime directed such series as: “The song of the mermaids”, “Japanese Kananga”, “Pantanal” and others.
Great popularity for the director brought his series "Land of Love." This is a touching historical telenovela about poor Italians-immigrants, their love and hard life during the reign of President Campos-Salez.
The director explains his success with a love of life and people, he is obsessed with acquiring new knowledge and skills, learns all the time and loves to travel the world.
Clone
However, the greatest creative success of Jaime Monjardim is the series "Clone". He was so loved by the audience that many countries bought the rights to show it and still the series is occasionally broadcast on various channels around the world.
The script "Clone" was written by Gloria Perez, and Monjardim became the director and producer of the project.
The scale of the series was fascinating, because the shooting took place not only in Brazil, but also in Morocco.
Against the backdrop of colorful oriental landscapes, viewers follow the love story of Jadi and Lucas, a Muslim woman and an indigenous modern Brazilian.
In addition to the novel of two lovers, the series raises many important topics: the relationship of fathers and children, the difference in mentality, drug addiction and alcoholism, modern scientific achievements and the church’s attitude to the “wonders of science”.
The success of the series was simply overwhelming, which brought many awards to the project and world fame for the actors who starred in "Clone".
