Gabriel y Gabriela was a Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 made by Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

  and produced by Patricia Lozano in 1982. The series was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche

Yolanda Vargas Dulché

Yolanda Vargas Dulché de la Parra was a Mexican writer of short stories and telenovelas. She was born in Mexico City and died at her house the Pedregal.-Telenovelas:* Rubí * Alondra...

, who also wrote the adaptation for television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

. The series featured an original song "Dulce Amor", written by Bebu Silvetti

Bebu Silvetti

Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno , professionally known as Bebu Silvetti or simply Silvetti, was an Argentine pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer...

 and performed by Ana Martín

Ana Martín

Ana Martín is a Mexican actress best known for her work in telenovelas, movies and the stage. She has had a very successful and lengthy career since winning the Miss Mexico title in 1963.-Early life and career:...

, who also starred in the main role. The series was directed by Carlos Téllez with cinematography

Cinematography

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 by Carlos Velazquez

Carlos Velázquez

Carlos Fernandez Velázquez Castillo is a Mexican goalkeeper. He currently plays for CF Pachuca.Velázquez made his debut on April 29, 2006 during a 3-2 loss to Cruz Azul in the Clausura 2006 tournament....

.

Plot

The first part of the story takes place in 60's. It's the love story between Gabriela and Renato. The viewers will witness their marriage, the birth of their daughter, also named Gabriela and Renato's death from Nicando's hand.

The second part takes place in 80's. Gabriela is the grown daughter of Gabriela and Renato. She has a rebel personality and she pretends to be a man in order to sail on a boat. Then she will be courted by two men: Carlos and Fernando. At the end it's unclear whom she marries, because the viewers only see a hand that receives her at the altar.

CAST

• Ana Martín
  Ana Martín
  Ana Martín is a Mexican actress best known for her work in telenovelas, movies and the stage. She has had a very successful and lengthy career since winning the Miss Mexico title in 1963.-Early life and career:...
  
  -Gabriela
• Alfonso Iturralde -Gabriel
• Jorge Rivero
  Jorge Rivero
  Jorge Pous Rosas is a matinee idol, with a career spanning three continents , primarily in Spanish language media...
  
  -Carlos
• Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
  Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
  Jorge Martínez de Hoyos was a Mexican actor. He died from lung cancer on May 6, 1997.-Selected filmography:* The Hidden One * Beyond All Limits * The Magnificent Seven...
  
  -Benito
• Liliana Abud
  Liliana Abud
  Liliana Abud is an actress in telenovelas and Mexican cinema. She is also a screenwriter of telenovelas.- Biography :Liliana Abud wa born on July 5. She is married to Alfonso Rendon and has two children, Alfonso and Paula....
  
  -Martha
• Rafael Baledón -Raul
• Nadia Haro Oliva -Carolina
• Pancho Muller -Gervasio
• Patricio Castillo -Marcos
• Beatriz Sheridan
  Beatriz Sheridan
  Beatriz Sheridan was a Mexican actress and director. She died from a heart attack.-Biography:Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough was born in 1934 in Mexico City, Mexico, to an English mother and a Mexican father...
  
   -Rita
• Juan Ferrara
  Juan Ferrara
  Juan Ferrara is a famous Mexican telenovela and film actor,- Family :Juan is a son of the well known actress Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the famous Mexican actress, Helena Rojo...
  
   -Fernando
• Rodolfo Rodríguez -Fermin
• Patricia Arredondo -Serafina
• Kokin Li -Li
• Arturo Allegro -Chon
• Alberto Inzua -Official
• Patricia Thomas -Ivonne
• Alejandra Peniche -Nora
• Karmen Erpenbanch -Lupe
• Lourdes Munguia -Dora
• Lupita Pallás
  Lupita Pallás
  Lupita Pallás de Ortiz de Pinedo was a Mexican character actress and dancer best known for her various roles in television series in the early 1980s. She was the mother of comic actor Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo....
  
   -Eduviges
• Rosa Maria Morales -Herlinda
• Scarlet Macera -Margarita
• Luis Miranda -Andres
• Cinthia Riveroll -Gloria
• Simone Brook -Evelia
• Alejandra Espejo -Silvia
• Roxana Chávez -Flora
• Jorge Fegan -Sr.Goizurieta
• Ivan Rene -Fernando
• Queta Carrasco -Brigida
• José Alonso -Renato
• Jorge Humberto Robles -Nicandro
• Lissette Flores -Gabrielita

Trivia

This was the only Mexican telenovela dubbed in Cebuano

Cebuano language

Cebuano, referred to by most of its speakers as Bisaya , is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the Central Visayas. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino...

 and Hiligaynon

Hiligaynon language

Hiligaynon, often referred to as Ilonggo, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo, Negros Occidental and Capiz but is also spoken in the other provinces of the Panay Island group, including Antique,...

 languages in the Philippines, now of regionals played by GMA Iloilo, Cebu and Davao.