La Venganza (Colombian telenovela)

La Venganza
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Genre	Romance - Action, Drama, Crime, Suspense, Mystery
Created by	Humberto 'Kico' Olivieri
Developed by	Caracol Televisión Telemundo RTI Colombia
Written by	Humberto 'Kico' Olivieri Luis Colmenares Gabriela Dominguez Carolina Diaz
Directed by	Rodrigo Triana David Posada Tony Rodriguez Aurelio Valcárcel Carrol
Starring	Gabriela Spanic José Ángel Llamas Catherine Siachoque
Theme music composer	Carlos Ponce Joel Someillian
Opening theme	Carlos Ponce
Ending theme	Carlos Ponce
Country of origin	United States Colombia
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	127
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hugo León Ferrer
Producer(s)	Andrés Santamaría Lucero Venegas
Production location(s)	Bogota Girardot
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42-45 minutes
Release
Original network	Caracol Televisión Telemundo
Picture format	SDTV 480i
Audio format	Stereophonic sound
Original release	November 4, 2002 – May 16, 2003

La Venganza (The Revenge), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo, Caracol Televisión and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 127 episodes from November 4, 2002 to May 16, 2003. The soap opera was starred by Gabriela Spanic, José Ángel Llamas, and Catherine Siachoque.

Story

On the wedding day of Luis Miguel Ariza and Elena Fontana, a sick woman in her forties and daughter of one of the two mob bosses in the Caribbean town of Matamoros, she realizes that he is involved with her sister Grazzia, Elena's heart cannot take this and she dies. The same night Valentina Diaz who is just a poor but brave woman and a boxer in illegal fights sponsored by the other mob boss: Fernando Valerugo. Valentina dies because of a huge impact on her head during the fight, so Elena mysteriously comes back to life into Valentina's body. Elena has to ask help of a medium friend of her Tobago who helps her to get her life back, but Valentina is still an employee for Fernando Valerugo, so Elena cannot stop boxing and she has to train very hard with Valentina's best friend and trainer Brenda Li just to last toe-to-toe against her opponents in every fight she participates in on behalf of Valerugo. Valentina goes to Fontana's manor as Elena's best friend and using all her knowledge about the Fontanas' family she easily gets the trust of Luis Miguel and Danilo Fontana.

Elena's plan is get even with Grazzia and Luis Miguel but soon she realizes the only responsible is her sister Grazzia, who now sees Valentina as a huge threat for her plans with Luis Miguel and the Fontanas. Grazzia plans to destroy her father by helping Fernando Valerugo so she becomes her lover. Helena while in Fontanas' Manor learns that the daughter she had more than twenty years ago with Fernando Valerugo's son Marco Tulio did not die when she was born, so she decides to find her daughter.

Valentina thinks that a young woman in Valerugo's Manor named Adoración is her daughter. Valentina's brother Paquito is in love with Adoración, but the suspicion that Adoración is the heir both Valerugos and Fontanas make her a target for Fernando's family, her wife Raquel and her son Alfredo. Raquel kidnaps Adoración in order to control the potential heir, but the truth is Adoración is daughter of Father Sebastian (Fernando's brother) so the priest release her daughter and Grazzia learns that Raquel is using her so she kills her. Then Luis Miguel that Fernando's goddaughter Giovanna might be Helena's daughter and in order to confuse the Fontanas Fernando allows them to believe she is Helena's daughter.

Valentina and Luis Miguel starts a romantic relationship, but Valentina's ex-boyfriend and Fernando Valerugo's brother-in-law makes things more complicated and Grazzia takes advantage of the fact she is pregnant with Fernando's baby to keep Luis Miguel with her. Grazzia makes a scheme to blame Valentina for poisoning her and causing a miscarriage, after this episode both Fontanas and Valerugos go after Valentina to kill her. Felipe hides Valentina making everybody believe she is dead, just to prepare her to get her place as the heir of the Fonatanas and the Valerugos. Grazzia convinces Fernando to kill Luis Miguel so she can gain the full rights over the Fontanas' wealth, Luis Miguel is left to die in a lake but Valentina gets to save him. Luis Miguel eventually escapes and he believes Valentina has cheated on him all the time, in the search of Luis Miguel, Valentina is caught by Grazzia who locks her in a basement with no food or water, and finally she orders to set the house in fire, Grazzia believes that Valentina is dead, but Valentina was taken out of the basement by Tobago's husband.

In the basement Elena (in Valentina's body) learns that Luis Miguel married her because he wanted to get back several properties that Danilo Fontana took away from his parents, and the body she owns now it is actually the body of her own daughter. Elena (Valentina) now wants to destroy all the people who made her miserable for so long, in spite of the fact she is pregnant with Luis Miguel's baby. Felipe gets several top secret documents that he uses to blackmail both Valerugos and Fontanas and he ask One Million Dollars to keep the secret. Felipe takes Valentina to Europe with Rosario and Concepcion (who already knows that Valentina is really Elena).

Cast

Actor	Character	Known as
Gabriela Spanic	Valentina Valerugo Fontana	Main heroine, boxer, daughter of Helena and Marco Tulio, in love with Luis Miguel
José Ángel Llamas	Luis Miguel Ariza	Main hero, in love with Helena, then Valentina
Catherine Siachoque	Grazzia Fontana	Main villain, daughter of Danilo, sister of Helena,
Maria Elena Doehring	Helena Fontana Viso de Ariza	Daughter os Danilo and Concepcion, sister of Grazzia, mother of Valentina
Ana Maria Abello	Adoracion Valerugo Dominguez	Daughter of Sebastian and Maria Teresa, in love with Paquito
Orlando Miguel	Felipe Rangel	Brother of Raquel, loves Valentina
Barbara Garofalo	Mariangel Ariza	Daughter of Luis Miguel and
Carlos Duplat	Danilo Fontana	Father of Helena and Grazzia, grandfather of Valentina
Jorge Cao	Fernando Valerugo	Father of Marco Tulio and Alfredo, grandfather of Valentina
Marcela Carvajal	Raquel de Valerugo	Wife of Fernando, sister of Felipe
Luz Stella Luengas	Yolanda Diaz	Mother of Paquito, stepmother of Valentina
Nury Flores	Tobago Christmas	Visionary, wife of Jovito
Millie Ruperto	Bernardina Perez (Brenda Lee)	Trainer of Valentina
Vanessa Simon	Giovanna Alfieri	Girlfriend of Armando
John Ceballos	Rosario Paricua	Bodyguard of Danilo and Helena
Pedro Rendon	Francisco Jose "Paquito" Diaz	Stepbrother of Valentina, in love with Adoracion
Yury Perez	Franky Garcia	Bodyguard and assistant of Fernando
Victor Rodriguez	Jovito Matute	Husband of Tobago
Naren Daryanani	Alfredo Valerugo	Son of Fernando
Julio del Mar	Padre Sebastian	Brother of Fernando, father of Adoracion
Margalida Castro	Concepcion Fernandez	Mother of Helena
Carlos Barbosa	Numa Pompeyo - Aurelio Santaela	Husband of Yaya
Miguel Alfonso Murillo	Americo Montalva / Father Cumbaya	Visionary
Maria Margarita Giraldo	Matilde	Nurse of Concepcion
German Rojas	Leonardo Michelotto	Bodyguard of Danilo
Ivette Zamora	María Teresa Carballo	Servant of the Valerugos', mother of Adoracion
Martha Lucía Pereiro	María Luisa Arciniegas	Lawyer and lover of Luis Miguel
Natasha Klauss	Sandra Guzmán	Best friend of Grazzia
Rosemary Bohórquez	Clara Noyo	Ex-girlfriend of Felipe
Raúl Santa	Teobaldo Carmona	Ex-assistant of Danilo
Laura Suarez	Ximena María Benavides de Ariza	Mother of Mariangel
Sebastian Boscán	Marco Tulio Valerugo	Son of Fernando, Father of Valentina

Broadcasters

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series finale	Weekly schedule	Timeslot
Azerbaijan	Qisas	ANS TV	2003	2003	Monday to Friday	19:00
Colombia	La Venganza	Caracol Televisión	2003-2013	2003-2013	Monday to Friday	In 2003 20:00 and In 2013 10:40 a.m.
United States	La Venganza	Telemundo	2002	2003	Monday to Friday	21.00/20.00c.
Romania	Razbunarea	Acasa TV	2002	2003	Monday to Friday
Hungary	A bosszú	Sorozat+	November 7, 2011	June 1, 2012	Monday to Friday	21:00
Bulgaria	Отмъщението	bTV	2003	2003	Monday to Friday	17:00
Slovenia	Maščevalka (Avenger)	Prva TV/TV3 Slovenia	2006	2006	Monday to Friday
Bosnia and Herzegovina		Televizija OBN			Monday to Friday
Georgia	შურისძიება	Rustavi 2	March 8, 2004	August 20, 2004	Monday to Friday	19:45