Kassandra (TV series)

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Kassandra
Logo kassandra.jpg
Genre Telenovela
Romance
Drama
Created by Delia Fiallo
Written by Delia Fiallo
Directed byGrazio D'Angelo
Olegario Barrera
Starring Coraima Torres
Osvaldo Ríos
Henry Soto
Theme music composerJose Antonio Bordell
Opening themeKassandra by Jose Antonio Bordell
Country of origin Venezuela
Original languageSpanish
No. of episodes150
Production
Executive producersOmar Pin
Alberto Giarocco
ProducerHernando Faria
Production locations Mucuchíes, Mérida
Running time1992–1993
Production company RCTV
Original release
Network RCTV
ReleaseOctober 8, 1992 (1992-10-08) –
May 11, 1993 (1993-05-11)
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Kassandra is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Delia Fiallo and produced by RCTV. [1] The story revolves around a young woman, Kassandra who grows up in a traveling circus among many Romani people. She thinks she is connected to the ethnic subgroup not knowing that she is in fact the granddaughter of a rich landowner whose stepson she falls desperately in love with. This love culminates in everyone around Kassandra discovering hidden secrets and her greatly suffering because of it.

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Kassandra lasted 150 episodes between October 1992 and May 1993, and it achieved a worldwide amount of success outside Venezuela. [2] It was extremely successful in its later airings, especially in United States, Romania, Greece, Italy, Russia, former Eastern Bloc nations, former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, as well as the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. In 2008, the show was also remade in Russia as Принцесса цирка (Princess of the Circus).

Coraima Torres, Osvaldo Ríos & Henry Soto starred as protagonists [3] with Nury Flores, Alexander Milic, Loly Sánchez, Erika Madina and also Osvaldo Ríos as the antagonists. [4]

Synopsis

The action begins 20 years prior to the actual plot, when a travelling circus sets up on the outskirts of Caracas. Andreina Arocha, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, is awestruck by the clowns, the wild animals, and a Gypsy fortuneteller who relates wonderful things the future has in store. Unbeknownst to Andreina, the fortuneteller actually sees a tragic destiny for her and something mysterious forewarns that their paths will meet again. One year later when the circus returns, Andreina has died of a terminal illness after giving birth to a baby girl. At the same time, Andreina's stepmother, Herminia, an unscrupulous and overly-ambitious woman, discovers that a Gypsy from the circus and her newborn have died during childbirth. Herminia, who has twin sons from a previous marriage and wants them to be sole heirs to the Arocha fortune, plots a devious plan and carries it out with the help of a hired hand. One dark night, he follows Herminia's orders to exchange the infants. In the crib, the lifeless body of the infant Gypsy replaces Andreina's healthy child who in turn is given to the Gypsies. The next day, the circus packs up and leaves town.

Years go by. Finally, one day the circus returns and so does Kassandra, who has grown to be a beautiful young woman. According to Gypsy tradition, the woman who raised Kassandra, her supposed grandmother, promised her hand in matrimony when she was an infant to Randu, a rough young man who is now the leader of the tribe.

During the first night of the Gypsies' arrival to town, while Randu dances with his future wife, Kassandra's eyes wander to another man. Their eyes meet and become locked in a strong mutual attraction. The man who stares is Luis David, one of Herminia's twin sons. Later the two talk below the starry sky, in the loneliness of the mountainside where they share a magical moment. The following day however, Luis David leaves town without a word.

Not long after, his twin brother Ignacio discovers that Kassandra is the true heir to the Arocha fortune and he tricks her into marrying him. The first night of their fateful honeymoon, Ignacio is mysteriously killed by his ex-wife and maid Rosaura, but Kassandra thinks that he has left her. In an effort to discover his brother's assassin, Luis David returns and assumes Ignacio's identity. His suspicions fall on Kassandra, the beautiful young gypsy who knew her husband so briefly and who now believes that Luis David is her husband. [5]

Cast

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References

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  2. ↑ "IX WORLD SUMMIT OF THE TELENOVELA AND FICTION SERIES INDUSTRY AWARDS GAINS AND NEW TENDENCIES". tvmasmagazine.com. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "PROTAGONIZADA POR CORAIMA TORRES Y OSVALDO RÍOS ʽKassandraʼ" (in Spanish). teleprograma.es. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "¡ANTES Y DESPUÉS! Así lucen algunos de los actores de la novela Kassandra (+ Fotos)". veonoticia (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Kassandra". seriesnow.com. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Coraima Torres, la inolvidable Kassandra: "La vida ha sido muy generosa conmigo"". teleprograma (in Spanish). 4 April 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "OSVALDO RIOS TRIUMPHS IN HOLLYWOOD AS A PRODUCER". Osvaldorios.net. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
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