Mesa para tres | |
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Genre | Telenovela |
Written by | Jorge Hiller, Claudia F. Sánchez, Rafael Rojas |
Directed by | Armando Barbosa, Luis Orjuela |
Starring | Héctor Arredondo Diego Cadavid Catalina Aristizábal |
Country of origin | Colombia |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of episodes | 118 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Orlando Jiménez |
Producers | Asier Aguilar, Miguel Ángel Daza |
Production location | Bogotá |
Camera setup | Multicamera |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Caracol TV |
Release | March 15 – December 15, 2004 |
Mesa para tres ("Table for Three") is a 2004 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV.
Luis and Alejandro Toro arrive with their mother to Bogotá, after escaping their home town, where they owned a restaurant. In Bogotá they get a job at Zavatti, a high-class restaurant. Both Luis and Alejandro meet and fall in love with Andrea Zavatti, who is the daughter of Harold Zavatti, the owner of the restaurant. George Brown, who is Andrea's boyfriend, tries to get rid from the Toro brothers, as he is only interested in Mr Zavatti's fortune. Luis is kidnapped and thought dead, Andrea and Alejandro get together and, when Luis appears again, feels betrayed by Alejandro.
The song used as theme song was the 1981 hit Te quiero para mí, by Spanish group Trigo Limpio.
The series was sold to several networks in Latin America, including Venezuela's RCTV. In 2007, ClubIT Arena bought the rights to offer a subtitled version of Mesa para tres on its website in Japan, under the title Andrea, ai to ryakudatsu no honoo (アンドレア〜愛と略奪の炎). [1] It was divided in 4 "seasons" (3 of 30 episodes each, and one of 28 episodes).
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