Ciudad Bendita
Ciudad Bendita is a Venezuelan telenovela produced and broadcast by Venevisión and distributed internationally by Venevisión International. The telenovela is an original story written by Leonardo Padrón.[1]
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| Genre | Telenovela |
| Created by | Leonardo Padrón |
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| Creative director(s) | Yvo Hernández |
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| Music by |
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| Opening theme | "Ciudad Bendita" by Roque Valero |
| Country of origin | Venezuela |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 214 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Carolina De Jacobo |
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| Production location(s) | Caracas |
| Cinematography | José Pérez |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Distributor | Venevisión International |
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| Original network | Venevisión |
| Picture format | NTSC (480i) |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Original release | July 25, 2006 – April 4, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Los Querendones |
| Followed by | Voltea pa' que te enamores |
Marisa Román and Roque Valero star as the main protagonists. Since January 9, 2012, the telenovela has aired in Venezuela through cable channel Venevision Plus to repeated 4pm at 11:30 pm. It is considered a most successful telenovela written by Leonardo Padrón, after Cosita rica.[2]
Plot
Set in the heat of a popular market, Ciudad Bendita tells the love story between two peddlers, two losers, two people of the heap, as anonymous as any. Bendita Sanchez has a detail that obscures her beauty: a limp. On a bus trip back to Caracas she meets Juan Lobo, an ugly man that dreams of becoming a musician, and he instantly falls in love with her.
However, Bendita happens to love another: Yunior Mercado, a metrosexual playboy, and only views Juan Lobo as a friend despite his composing of various songs to win her favor.
Ciudad Bendita is a great tribute to unrequited love, as well as the story of a country, a people, an entire community living on poverty, and a handful of survivors who dream of learning the key to happiness in the muddy streets of a Latin American city.
Cast
Starring
- Marisa Román as Bendita Sánchez
- Roque Valero as Juan Lobo
Also starring
- Juan Carlos García as Yúnior Mercado
- Alba Roversi as María "Maga" Gabriela
- Nohely Arteaga as Magaly de Mercado / Doble M
- Gledys Ibarra as Mercedes Zuleta / La Diabla
- Yanis Chimaras as Guaicaipuro Mercado / Puro
- Beatriz Valdés as Trina de Palacios
- Caridad Canelón as Peregrina de Lobo
- Henry Soto as Kike "Kikin" Palacios
- Carlos Cruz as Baldomero Sánchez
- Carlota Sosa as Julia Barrios de Venturini
- Lourdes Valera as Francisca
- Luis Gerónimo Abreu as Jorge Venturini / Grillo
- Milena Santander as Prudencia Barrios
- Guillermo Dávila as Macario
- Manuel Salazar as Rotundo Quiñones
- Daniela Bascopé as Fedora Palacios
- Elaiza Gil as Mi Alma
- Ana María Simón as Mediática
- Andreína Yépez as Zulay Montiel Barranco
- Alejandro Corona as Etcétera
- Jessica Grau as Marugenia "Maru" Torrealba
- Yván Romero as Kenny G
- María Cristina Lozada as Consuelo
- Carlos Villamizar as Robinson Sánchez
- Freddy Galavís as Ismael Lobo
- Mirtha Borges as Bertha
- Pedro Durán as Cafecito
- Humberto García as Fausto
- Martín Lantigua as Tobías
- Jean Paul Leroux as Jerry Colón
- Anastasia Mazzone as Kimberly Mercado
- Laureano Olivares as Julio Augusto Sánchez
- Susej Vera as Valentina
- Josemith Bermúdez as Tiki
- Antonio Delli as Gonzalo Venturini
- Erika Pacheco as Vera
- Adriana Romero as Yamilé
- Paula Woyzechowsky as Rosita
- David Garcés as Ricardo
- Simón Rojas as Cheo
References
- "Ciudad bendita"
- "La profecía de Bendita Sánchez sobre Roque Valero que muchos ignoraron". lapatilla.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2020.
