Amores de mercado (2006 TV series)

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Amores de mercado
Amores-Mercado.png
Created byBasilio Álvarez
Written byBasilio Álvarez
Irene Calacano
Gennys Perez
Eric Vonn
Directed byRodolfo Hoyos
Andrés Bermann
Starring Paola Rey
Mauricio Islas
Michel Brown
Vanessa Villela
Jorge Cao
Theme music composer Miguel De Narváez
Opening themeAmores de mercado eres tú by Alexa Hernández
Country of origin Colombia
United States
Original languageSpanish
No. of episodes123
Production
Executive producer Hugo León Ferrer
CinematographyMauricio Cadavid
Roberto Cortés
EditorJosé Luis Varón
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time42-45 minutes
Release
Original network RTI Producciones
Telemundo
Original releaseJune 14, 2006 (2006-06-14) 
January 12, 2007 (2007-01-12)

Amores De Mercado (Love at The Market) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica. [1]

Contents

This show was retitled simply Amores in mid-run. Head writer Basilio Alvarez was replaced by Eric Vonn and the storylines and characters went in a new direction. When Telemundo reaired the show in daytime in 2009, the shorter title was used for the entire series. BTV started to air this telenovela on November 22, 2006 in Bulgaria.

Story

Amores De Mercado tells the story of Fernando (Mauricio Islas), an ambitious man who driven by greed will do the unimaginable to his own family, Lucia (Paola Rey), a woman in search of her husband, and Diego (Michel Brown), an athlete who feels defeated by life. Lucia and Diego will meet and find a reason to love again and start over in life, however, destiny will put them to the test. This is a story of second chances and how love can save us when everything else is lost.

Cast

Script features

When Eric Vonn took the story in his hands, he rewrote all the rest of the story from about episode 40 to the end, and made it in his unique manner providing almost all the dialogues and scenes in ironic, sarcastic manner with many allegories full of black humor. Huge amount of violent and sadistic scenes involving main characters, and the manner of setting this scenes are although comic, all this features make novels of Vonn very different from all telenovela writers, in fact he is the only one writing telenovelas in a genre of black humor.

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References

  1. "Zone Romantica: Amores de Mercado". www.uk.romantica.tv. Archived from the original on 9 February 2007.