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Victoria (Telemundo Series)
Victoria is the title of a Spanish-language telenovela about a woman who falls in love with a dashing younger man, when her marriage collapses around her. It is produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series debuted in the US on December 4, 2007, after La Esclava Isaura finished. Filmed in Bogota, it stars Victoria Ruffo, Mauricio Ochmann, Arturo Peniche, Geraldine Bazan Terra.com, La actriz mexicana Geraldine Bazan deja Miami para grabar telenovela en Colombia January 10, 2007. and Andrea Lopez.
The series has been released on DVD in the USA in a condensed version with optional English subtitles.
Story
In her 25th wedding anniversary party, Victoria Mendoza (Victoria Ruffo) finds out her husband Enrique Mendoza (Arturo Peniche) has a mistress, Tatiana Lopez (Andrea Lopez). Suddenly Victoria's whole life crashes around her as she realizes her marriage is wrecked. As she tries to heal the pain of her husband's adultery, she meets the 33-year-old Jeronimo (Mauricio Ochmann) out of the blue.
Victoria falls for this younger man, giving her a second chance at the true love and passion missing in her loveless marriage. Many of her loved ones oppose her relationship, including her daughters Paula (Geraldine Bazan) and Mariana (Laura Perico), her mother Mercedes (Margalida Castro) and her ex husband. They blame her for the breakup. On the other hand, her son Santiago (Ricardo Abarca) offers unconditional support. While her younger daughter Mariana (Laura Perico) is supposed to be going to university but isn't, she instead goes to a bar. The owner of the bar, Pacho, gets girls high and then rapes them. And that's what happened to Mariana. Mariana met him because of her other "friend" Arturo. Mariana actually wanted to get together with Arturo but Pacho convinced her into getting with him supposedly just to make Arturo jealous. Victoria has many problems but does she know she has those problems? Can she solve them? So Victoria faces a difficult decision: either fight to keep true love alive or surrender and let it slip away.
Production
Victoria is a remake of Senora Isabel, a 1993 Colombian soap. This story was also filmed for Mexican TV in 1997 as Mirada de mujer (The Gaze of a Woman). Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. This show's working titles were Tiempos de Victoria (''Victoria's Times), Senora Isabeland The Mauricio Ochmann Project''.
The show's premiere on Telemundo reached 782,000 core adult (ages 1849) viewers, according to NTI, and over 1.5 million total viewers overall. The network expanded the series' run to about 160 chapters from the standard length, 120 shows. It has not announced any plans to remake Mirada's sequel, El Regreso (The Return). Geraldine Bazan won a Latin ACE Award for "Best Inspiring Young Actress" during her role as Paula.
Broadcast
Victoria airs on Caracol TV in Colombia, on Telemundo in the United States, Televisa (on Galavision) in Mexico, on POP TV in Slovenia, on FOX TV in Serbia, on NTV Hayat in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Acas in Bucharest, Romania, from August 2009 in Slovakia on TV Domaand Shant Tv in Armenia and from August 2009 in Iran on Farsi1 Satellite TV Channel. farsi1 censored some scenes of this series as french kisses to adapted it with Iranian culture.
Alternate ending
On August 4, 2008 Telemundo broadcast the alternate ending of Victoria through Yahoo! Telemundo. It was the first alternate ending of a Spanish Telenovela ever aired by Telemundo in the United States.
Advertisements
Product placements in the US version of this show include: JCPenney, T-Mobile Scrubbing Bubbles, Budweiser, Bud Light, Windex, Oust, Lysol, State Farm, Visa, Lowes, The Home Depot, Walmart and Pledge. In some cases, Telemundo news programs can be seen or heard while characters are watching TV, even though this show is not specifically set in the United States.
Cast
(in order of appearance)
Victoria Ruffo .... Victoria Santiesteban de Mendoza -
Arturo Peniche ... Enrique Mendoza -
Mauricio Ochmann .... Jeronimo Ernesto Acosta - ''
Geraldine Bazan .... Paula Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, lawyer
Andrea Lopez .... Tatiana Lopez - former lover of Enrique, mother of enrique's child felipe"
Diana Quijano .... Camila Matiz - friend of Victoria
Javier Delgiudice .... Gerardo Cardenas - husband of Helena and father of Arturo
Laura Perico .... Mariana Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, radio host
Ricardo Abarca .... Santiago Mendoza - son of Victoria and Enrique, singer
Adriana Romero....Valeria Saenz - Loves Jeronimo
Jose Julian Gaviria....Martin Acosta - son of Silvia and Jeronimo
Patricia Grisales]]..... - Carlota Velandia ''friend and adssociate of Victoria"
Margalida Castro .... Mercedes 'Meme' de Santiesteban - mother of Victoria
Laura Londono .... Eliza - 'amiga de Mariana'
Andres Felipe Martinez ..... - 'Guillermo' - el jefe de Jeronimo
Roberto Manrique .... Sebastian Villanueva - ''Paula's Husband
Camilo Trujillo .... - Arturo Cardenas - son of Helena and Gerardo Cardenas
Ricardo Gonzalez .... - Henry - friend of Jeronimo
Maria Helena Doehring .... Helena de Cardenas - wife of Gerardo and mother of Arturo
Natalia Bedoya .... - Estrella - girlfriend of Santiago
Julio del Mar .... - Bernardo Solis doctor of Camila
Lucero Gomez .... dona Thea
Paola Diaz....Silvia - Jeronimo's ex-wife, died"
Angela Carrisoza
David de Oliveira
Edmundo Troya ... ex of Camila
Maria Leon Arias ... Marlene
Rene Figueroa
Fernando Corredor
Luz Mary Arias .... Marlene
Mariano Fernandez
Fabio Camero Jr.
Maru Giraldo
Gloria Pinilla
Fernanda Gonzalez
Adriana Lopez
Daniel Calderon .... Santiago's friend
Naren Daryanani
Victor Hugo Trespalacios .... Elvis
Luis Carlos Galeano
Sebastian Eslava .... Pacho
Daniel Quintero
Sonia Rico
Diego Camacho
Maria Emilia Kamper
Claudio Fernandez
Javier Felipe Rodriguez
Mario A. Parra
Paula A. Herrera
Karol Aza
Jackeline Aristizabal
Alex Rodriguez
Ximena Salamanca
Crew
Based on the Original Story of:
Bernardo Romero Pereiro
Monica Agudelo Tenorio
Screenplay by:
Jimena Romero
Lina Uribe
Art Director:
Piedad Arango
Scenography:
Jorge Parra
Ambientation:
Paola Triana
Costume Designer:
Consuelo Sierra
Make-up:
Jacqueline Maiorga
Original Music:
Miguel de Narvaez
VP of Talent:
Joshua Mintz
Additional Arguments:
Margarita Londono
Photography Directors:
Mauricio Cadavid
Roberto Cortez
Operators:
Alejandro Castro
Ricardo Morales
Editors:
Mauricio Gonzalez
Diego Rene Garcia
Musicalization:
Tatiana Gomez
Chief of Production:
Oscar Guarin
Directors:
Rodolfo Hoyos
Andres Bermann
Executive Producer:
Hugo Leon Ferrer
External links
[*] Telemundo Website
[*] Official "Victoria" Website
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