Aquelarre (telenovela)

Aquelarre (Witches' Sabbath) is a Chilean telenovela produced by TVN. It was written by Fernando Aragón, Arnaldo Madrid, Nona Fernández and Hugo Morales. Directed by María Eugenia Rencoret.

Plot

It is the love story of Emilia (Sigrid Alegría) and Juan Pablo (Álvaro Rudolphy) belonging to families hate for various reasons. Inspired by "The House of Bernarda Alba" chronicles the events after a people of strange features. Aquelarre is located in central Chile and is distinguished from all others because more than thirty years ago that women breed inhabitants only, no man born within its limits. All men are thirty or more and those with less have come from outside.

Within the town three feuding families together control everything. Elena Vergara (Coca Guazzini) is chemically and has developed a substance that prevents born men. She has a son, Juan Pablo, who lives in Holland and back to town when you discover a leukemia. There he falls in love with Emilia, daughter of Bernardita (Maricarmen Arrigorriaga), enemy of Elena.

Emilia has had to take over the work of his late father and kept house and sisters who are all men's names because marriage has always expected a son. In this family composed only of women each have very particular characteristics, from Rodolfa (Patricia Rivadeneira) is done or gone mad after her boyfriend dumped her Pepe Romano wedding day, to Eduarda (Claudia Burr) who can not control his passion for Toro Mardones (Francisco Pérez-Bannen), to sweet Gustava (Paola Volpato), local school teacher and the rude Ricarda (Yuyuniz Navas).

Just as the home of Bernardita is a refuge for women Fernando (Edgardo Bruna) it is of men. Divorced three women has a child with each of them.

The phenomenon that makes women born Ignacio Pastene (Bastian Bodenhöfer), a renowned geneticist, is to live in the village to investigate the phenomenon. There is reunited with Silvana (Catalina Guerra), a woman who never wanted to see in your life.

Cast

• Sigrid Alegría as Emilia Patiño.
• Álvaro Rudolphy as Juan Pablo Huidobro.
• Álvaro Escobar as Diego Guerra.
• Bastián Bodenhöfer as Ignacio Pastene.
• Coca Guazzini as Elena Vergara.
• Edgardo Bruna as Fernando Guerra.
• Maricarmen Arrigorriaga as Bernarda Álvarez.
• Catalina Guerra as Silvana Montes
• Mauricio Pesutic as Prudencio Barraza.
• Ximena Rivas as Poncia.
• Jael Unger as Miss Julia Moya.
• Jaime Vadell as Pelayo, priest.
• Anita Klesky as Cándida Morales.
• Claudia Burr as Eduarda Patiño.
• Paola Volpato as Gustava Patiño.
• Patricia Rivadeneira as Rodolfa Patiño.
• Francisco Pérez-Bannen as Toro Mardones / Pepe Romano.
• Alejandra Fosalba as Tina Torres.
• Mónica Godoy as Scarlett Jara / Pía Montero.
• Felipe Braun as Gonzalo Guerra Bulnes.
• Lucy Salgado as Mireya Flores.
• Ana Reeves as Chela Ponce.
• Marcelo Romo as Celedonio Meneses.
• Katherine Salosny as Lorena Meneses.
• Íñigo Urrutia as Marcelo Guerra.
• Patricia López as Carolina Meneses.
• Claudio Arredondo as Benito.
• Yuyuniz Navas as Ricarda Patiño.
• Alejandro Montes as Cristián Guerra.
• Angélica Neumann as Camelia Huidobro / "The Bride of The Night"
• Carolina Contreras as Alelí Huidobro.
• Claudia Vergara as Isidora Orrego.
• Patricia Velasco as Rosita Moya.
• Carmina Riego as Lourdes.
• Mario Montilles as Mr. Artemio
• Mireya Moreno as Ruperta

Other Cast

• Eduardo Barril as Mr. Jorge Patiño.
• Consuelo Holzapfel as Alicia Braun.
• Schlomit Baytelman as Mariola Bulnes.
• Loreto Valenzuela as Ivonne Garcés.
• Sergio Hernández as Maximiliano Jara Errázuriz.
• Francisca Reiss as Leticia Jara Ibáñez
• Nicolás Saavedra as Rigoberto Rodríguez.
• Rosario Zamora as Dra. Olsen

References