Hechizo de Amor
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Hechizo de Amor (2000) was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. This telenovela lasted 130 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International.
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[edit] Synopsis
Ligia Valderrama is a beautiful, self-assured, young woman accustomed to getting everything she wants. Her father, Francisco Valderrama, has spoiled her excessively, perhaps to make up for the harm he did her when she was still a baby. Although Ligia has grown up believing she is the daughter of Raquela, her father’s wife, her real mother is Salome Hernandez, a woman of humble birth who fell in love with Francisco in spite of the fact that he was already married. On a fateful night over 20 years ago, Salome and Francisco were running away with their baby daughter and a briefcase containing a million dollars that he had stolen from his wife’s firm, when they had a serious car accident. Raquela found them unconscious – frustrated because she could never have a child - seized the opportunity to kidnap little Ligia. Threatening Francisco with turning him in for embezzlement, she made him her accomplice in a terrible lie: telling Salome that her daughter was dead. The pain of this news was so unbearable that Salome went insane and was committed in a sanitarium. And so, Ligia grew up in the luxury of the Valderrama’s household, with a slightly cold adoptive mother and a loving, but weak and remorseful, father.
Meanwhile, in a country village a few hours away from the capital, a different story is unfolding. It centers on Mabel Alcantara, another beautiful young woman, whose life is not what it was originally meant to be. Unlike Ligia, Mabel has grown up wild and poor, reared by a kind-hearted couple who took her in when her parents died. She could never imagine that she is actually the owner of the lavish hacienda where she sneaks in to steal mangoes. The current master of the hacienda, Arturo Urbaneja Castro, cheated Mabel’s parents out of the estate, and this circumstance led them to commit suicide. That is why now it is so ironic for Mabel to fall in love with Luis Diego Urbaneja, son of the scoundrel who deprived her of what was rightfully hers. The passionate love affair that develops between Mabel and Luis Diego will bring them many difficulties…
Almost simultaneously, Ligia finds the man of her dreams: Gabriel Salazar. They fall deeply in love, but this relationship is also bound to fail as Raquela gets in the way, disapproving of the social differences between them. That is when fate confronts Ligia and Mabel. The sweet country girl, pregnant by Luis Diego and shunned by his family, now lives in the city and casually meets Gabriel. She touches him with her gentleness, and now that he is separated from Ligia, he feels the need to care for Mabel, and eventually even asks her to marry him. The marriage does not take place, however, because both Gabriel and Mabel realize they still love Ligia and Luis Diego. After a series of unexpected events, both young couples will finally find happiness together… and at long last, Ligia and Mabel will recover what life had so unfairly taken from them.
[edit] Cast
- Emma Rabbe as Ligia Valderrama
- Guillermo Perez as Gabriel Salazar
- Niurka Acevedo as Penelope Bracho
- Miguel Alcantara as Francisco Valderrama
- Julio Alcazar as Arturo Urbaneja Castro
- Mayra Alejandra as Raquela Valderrama
- Alberto Alifa as Juan Diego Urbaneja
- Ernesto Balzi as Alonso Urrutia
- Juan A. Baptista as Rene Castro
- Julio Bernal as Venancio Alcantara
- Aroldo Betancourt as Leonardo Sotomayor
- Eva Blanco as Clara de Salazar
- Mirtha Borges as Marina de Alcantara
- Victor Camara as Jorge Luis Larrios
- Caridad Canelon as Salome Hernandez
- Ana Karina Casanova as Mariana Antunez
- Ana Castell as Dominga Cardenas
- Miguel David Diaz as Mauricio Sanchez
- Wanda D'Isidoro as Mabel Alcantara
- Ivette Dominguez as Felicia Hurtado
- Kimberly Dos Ramos as Marta Sanchez
- Alexis Escamez as Higinio Perez
- Guillermo Ferran as Felipe Bracho
- Francisco Ferrari as Dr. German Duque
- Chony Fuentes as Fedora de Antunez
- Gaspar Gonzalez as Dr. Campo
- Victor Hernandez as Claudio Salazar
- Pedro Lander as Marcelo Salazar
- Carolina Lopez as Beatriz Gutierrez
- Fedra Lopez as Natasha
- Lotario as Cheo Meneses
- Eduardo Luna as Det. Miranda
- Antonio Machuca as Dr. Romero
- Ana Martinez as Sonia
- Ana Massimo as Luisa Perez
- Roberto Messutti as Silvio Perez
- Eva Mondolfi as Cecilia Larrios
- Adelaida Mora as Bettina
- Cristina Obin as Inmaculada de Urbaneja
- Miriam Ochoa as Amalia
- Eliseo Perera as Dr. Acevedo
- Dulce Maria Pilonieta as Leticia
- Mauricio Renteria as Padre Angel Jesus
- Victor Rentoya as Adalberto Cardenas
- Yvonne Reyes as Regina Fuentes
- Chelo Rodriguez as Adelaida Sotomayor
- Rafael Romero as Hugo Ruiz
- Monica Rubio as Trinita Sanchez
- Betty Ruth as Crisanti Hernandez
- Diego Salazar as Amado Cardenas
- Soraya Sanz as Antonia
- Judith Vasquez as Iraida Montes
- Jose Vieira as Emilio Cardenas
- Andreina Yepez as Lorena
- Gigi Zancheta as Carolina Sanchez
[edit] Theme song
The theme song to Hechizo de Amor is "Quiereme", performed by Alejandro Fernández.
