La Traición
Encyclopedia
La Traición is a Colombian-American telenovela
co-produced by United States
-based Telemundo
and RTI Colombia
. Telemundo
debuted this serial on January 29, 2008, replacing Madre Luna
. This show is also known as Betrayed.
Traición is based on the Colombian novel El Caballero de Rauzán, written in 1887 by Felipe Pérez. RTI Colombia made another adaptation of the story in 2000, titled Rauzán. As with most of its soap operas, Telemundo
broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Filming in Bogotá
, Colombia
, began in late October, 2007.
BTV started to air this telenovela on August 26, 2008 in Bulgaria
. RTV Pink
started to air this telenovela on January 26, 2009 in Serbia
. TV Puls
will start to air this novela on August 31, 2009 in Poland
.
This telenovela was sold to 22 countries around the world.
, an incurable condition marked by loss of voluntary motion. The same disease felled his father years before.
This dashing young man meets Soledad de Obregon, a gorgeous, refined girl and the two are bound together by sudden passion, though matters are complicated by Hugo's desire to hide his infirmity.
As the adoring couple prepares to marry, tragedy strikes again. Hugo's sinister brother, Alcides, who has always been in love with Soledad, betrays him and steals his betrothed. The rest of the telenovela deals with first Hugo's quest for vengeance and then his attempts to regain the trust and love of Soledad.
, Sandra Echeverría
and Gabriel Porras
as stars. Danna Garcia
replaced Echeverría and Salvador del Solar replaced Porras, who took the male lead in Madre Luna
. Telemundo began airing ads promoting this show in September, before filming began. It apparently shortened the series from the original plan of 130 to 106 episodes.
Telemundo also took a shot at rival network Univision
by having Michelle Vieth
appear in first-run episodes of this show, while Univision aired Al Diablo con los Guapos
from 2007. This highlights that the competition rebroadcasts serials that already aired in Mexico several months ago, while Telemundo
usually airs original programming. Michelle Vieth
is thus one of the few soap performers to appear on competing US networks at the same time.
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"...
co-produced by United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-based Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
and RTI Colombia
RTI Colombia
RTI Colombia, also known as Radio Televisión Interamericana , is a Colombian television production company. It aired 14.5 per week of programming each week in 1993....
. Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
debuted this serial on January 29, 2008, replacing Madre Luna
Madre Luna
Madre Luna is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series, also known as Grains of Love, debuted on July 2, 2007. Veteran telenovela writer Julio Jiménez developed the story as a vehicle for star Amparo...
. This show is also known as Betrayed.
Traición is based on the Colombian novel El Caballero de Rauzán, written in 1887 by Felipe Pérez. RTI Colombia made another adaptation of the story in 2000, titled Rauzán. As with most of its soap operas, Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Filming in Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, began in late October, 2007.
BTV started to air this telenovela on August 26, 2008 in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. RTV Pink
RTV Pink
RTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...
started to air this telenovela on January 26, 2009 in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. TV Puls
TV Puls
TV Puls is a Polish commercial television channel, which was based on Telewizja Niepokalanów with the support of companies such as PKN Orlen, KGHM Polska Miedź, PZU Życie, Prokom and which started broadcasting in March 2001. Due to financial problems, ended broadcasting on April 1, 2003...
will start to air this novela on August 31, 2009 in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
.
This telenovela was sold to 22 countries around the world.
Story
This romantic saga features Hugo de Medina, a handsome, mysterious swordsman, with a reputation as a womanizer. His life crashes around him when he finds he suffers from catalepsyCatalepsy
Catalepsy is also a term used by hypnotists to refer to the state of making a hypnotised subject's arm, leg or back rigid. "Arm catalepsy" is often a pre-hypnotic test performed prior to an induction into a full trance.-Causes:...
, an incurable condition marked by loss of voluntary motion. The same disease felled his father years before.
This dashing young man meets Soledad de Obregon, a gorgeous, refined girl and the two are bound together by sudden passion, though matters are complicated by Hugo's desire to hide his infirmity.
As the adoring couple prepares to marry, tragedy strikes again. Hugo's sinister brother, Alcides, who has always been in love with Soledad, betrays him and steals his betrothed. The rest of the telenovela deals with first Hugo's quest for vengeance and then his attempts to regain the trust and love of Soledad.
Production notes
This telenovela was originally announced with Mario CimarroMario Cimarro
Mario Antonio Cimarro Paz is a Cuban actor.-Biography:Cimarro was born in Havana, Cuba to Antonio Luis Cimarro and Maria Caridad Paz. He has one sister, Maria Antonia Cimarro Paz...
, Sandra Echeverría
Sandra Echeverría
Sandra Echeverría Gamboa is a Mexican actress and singer.Best known for her starring role in the Telemundo series Marina.- Biography :...
and Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and "El Tio Alberto"...
as stars. Danna Garcia
Danna García
Danna Maria García Osuna is a Colombian actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.The daughter of Colombian singer Claudia Osuna, Danna began her career at the age of four...
replaced Echeverría and Salvador del Solar replaced Porras, who took the male lead in Madre Luna
Madre Luna
Madre Luna is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series, also known as Grains of Love, debuted on July 2, 2007. Veteran telenovela writer Julio Jiménez developed the story as a vehicle for star Amparo...
. Telemundo began airing ads promoting this show in September, before filming began. It apparently shortened the series from the original plan of 130 to 106 episodes.
Telemundo also took a shot at rival network Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
by having Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth Paetau is an American-Mexican actress, best known for starring in telenovelas.- Biography :...
appear in first-run episodes of this show, while Univision aired Al Diablo con los Guapos
Al Diablo con los Guapos
Al Diablo con los Guapos is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the remake of the Argentinian super hit "Muñeca Brava" with Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana.-Plot:...
from 2007. This highlights that the competition rebroadcasts serials that already aired in Mexico several months ago, while Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
usually airs original programming. Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth Paetau is an American-Mexican actress, best known for starring in telenovelas.- Biography :...
is thus one of the few soap performers to appear on competing US networks at the same time.
Cast
- Mario CimarroMario CimarroMario Antonio Cimarro Paz is a Cuban actor.-Biography:Cimarro was born in Havana, Cuba to Antonio Luis Cimarro and Maria Caridad Paz. He has one sister, Maria Antonia Cimarro Paz...
.... Hugo de Medina- Main hero/ Alcides de Medina- Main villain. Identical brothers who both love Soledad. - Danna GarciaDanna GarcíaDanna Maria García Osuna is a Colombian actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.The daughter of Colombian singer Claudia Osuna, Danna began her career at the age of four...
.... Soledad de Obregón- Main heroine Loves Hugo - Michelle ViethMichelle ViethMichelle Vieth Paetau is an American-Mexican actress, best known for starring in telenovelas.- Biography :...
... Michelle- In love with Hugo - Ismael La RosaIsmael La RosaIsmael Armando La Rosa Fernandini is a Peruvian actor. He is best known for his roles in telenovelas.-Biography:...
... Daniel Von Sirak- Catelepsy doctor, in love with Soledad Also married with another women - Harry Geithner .... Francisco/Paco/Paquito- Town's reporter and in love with Eloísa
- Cesar MoraCesar MoraCesar Mora is a leading musician and actor in Colombia. He was born in Cali, and later spent fourteen years as part of the famed Son Del Pueblo band....
.... Guillermo Burke-Saves people when they are in trouble - Virna Flores .... Eloísa Renán- Villain. In love with Alcides and his wealth
- Rossana Fernández Maldonado .... Beatriz de Linares - Villain In Love with Hugo
- Mónica Franco .... Rebeca Montenegro- (Deceased) villain, Lucas' ex-lover
- Luz Estella LuengasLuz Estella LuengasLuz Stella Luengas was born in Colombia. She is a Colombian actress.She is currently in El Clon of Telemundo.- Filmography :*"El Clon" TV series .... Zoraide*"Gabriela giros del destino" .... Olga de Rueda...
.... Esther de Obregon- Soledad's mother, Lucas's wife - German Rojas .... Lucas de Obregon- Soledad's father, Esther's husband
- Victoria Góngora .... Helena Burke-Saves people when they are in trouble
- Flavio Peniche .... Boris- Hugo's servant. Falls in love with Ursula.
- Natalia Giraldo .... Tia Antonia- Soledad's aunt, Lucas' sister
- Indhira SerranoIndhira SerranoIndhira Rosa Serrano Redondo born in 1976, in Barranquilla, Colombia es is a well known Colombian actress and model.She participated in grand telenovelas such as "La Traición" and "El Clon" of Telemundo.- Telenovelas :* 2011 - Flor Salvaje ....Olguita...
.... Ursula- Soledad's servant. Falls in love with Boris. - Liliana Zalazar .... Marina- Boris' wife and villain
- Sergio Gonzalez .... Doctor Max- killed Daniel's father to find the cure to catalepsy
- Tiberio CruzTiberio CruzTiberio Cruz Fortunato born on 15 December 1976 in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, is a Colombian actor.-Televisión:* 2010 - El Clon ....Zein* 2009 - Victorinos ....Gary Estupiñan* 2009 - Bella Calamidades ....Román Galeano* 2008 - Doña Barbara ....Pajarote...
.... Hercules- Arturo's ex-servant. In love with Margot. - Salvador del Solar .... Arturo de Linares - Villain, in love with Margot and wants to enact revenge on Alcides
- Paulo Quevedo... Vladimir -
- Ricardo Saldarriaga
- Diego CamachoDiego Camacho----Diego Camacho is a tennis player from Bolivia, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There he was defeated in the first round by America's Jeff Tarango. Camacho reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on March 19, 2001, when he became the number 954 of the...
- Rene Figueroa
- Tommy Vásquez
- Andrés Martínez
- Esmeralda Pinzón .... Matilde
- Tania Falquez .... Alcides' and Hugo's mother
- Bastian Madiedo
- Javier ZapataJavier ZapataJavier Humberto Zapata Cuartas is a Colombian biketrial rider who performs the sport of biketrial, a sport that is little known internationally but very popular in Colombia. Zapata is arguably the sport's most visible performer...
- Cesar Vargas
- Oscar GonzálezOscar GonzálezFor the Spanish decathlete with the same name see Óscar González Óscar Mario "Bocha" González was a racing driver from Uruguay....
- Mauricio Bravo
- Sigifredo Vega
- Juan Carlos Bedoya
- Laila Viera .... Margot
- Luís Fernando Bohórquez
- Alberto Sornosa
- Juan Carlos Arboleda
- Eduardo Carreño
- Diego Giraldo
External links
(Spanish)- Telenovela World (bilingual)
- Telemundo teaser trailer (Spanish with English subtitles)
- Telenovela La Traición Tribute Site (in Spanish)