O Fim do Mundo is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by TV Globo from 6 May to 14 June 1996 in 35 chapters. It replaced Explode Coração and was replaced by O Rei do Gado, being the 52nd "novela das oito" (eight o'clock novela) produced by the network.
Written by Dias Gomes with collaboration of Ferreira Gullar, with general direction of Paulo Ubiratan and Gonzaga Blota and core direction of Paulo Ubiratan. He had José Wilker, Paloma Duarte, MaurÃÂcio Mattar, Paulo Betti, Guilherme Fontes, Vera Holtz, PatrÃÂcia França, Marcos Winter, Bruna Lombardi and Lima Duarte in the main roles of the plot.
It was rebroadcast between 15 August and 29 September 2000, only for the Federal District, Fernando de Noronha, and on analog satellite television in 40 episodes, immediately after Jornal Nacional, while in the rest of Brazil, free election advertising for the municipal elections was being shown.
Dias Gomes wrote the text to be presented as a miniseries but, because of the number of chapters, 35, and the traditional time at which it was presented at 8 pm, it was released as a mininovel, although it was in practice a miniseries. This was due to the fact that the predecessor novel, Explode Coração, was shortened in two months, at the author's own request, and her successor, O Rei do Gado, was not fully prepared.
For the first time in a novel, objects and virtual animals were created on three computer platforms. For the recordings of the cataclysm a model was made, ten times smaller than the scenic city, which had 35 thousand square meters.