El juego de la vida
El juego de la vida (English: The game of life) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Fernández and Giselle Gonález Salgado for Televisa in 2001.[1]
| El juego de la vida | |
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| Genre | Telenovela |
| Written by | Katia R. Estrada Graciela Gómez Enna Márquez |
| Directed by | Claudio Reyes Rubio Eric Morales Mendoza |
| Starring | Valentino Lanús Sara Maldonado Maki Soler Jackie García Margarita Magaña |
| Theme music composer | Carlos Páramo |
| Opening theme | "El juego de la vida" performed by Twister |
| Country of origin | Mexico |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 165 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Roberto Gómez Fernández |
| Producer(s) | Giselle González Salgado |
| Production location(s) | Filming Televisa San Ángel Mexico City, Mexico Locations Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico El Ajusco, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico Mexico City, D.F., Mexico Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico Tokyo, Japan |
| Cinematography | Héctor Márquez Armando Zafra |
| Editor(s) | Alejandro Becerril Juan Alfredo Villareal |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 41–44 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Televisa |
| Distributor | Televisa |
| Release | |
| Original network | Canal de las Estrellas |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | November 12, 2001 – June 28, 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Amigas y rivales |
| Followed by | Clase 406 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
On Monday, November 12, 2001, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting El juego de la vida weekdays at 7:00pm, replacing Amigas y rivales. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, June 28, 2002 with Clase 406 replacing it the following day.
Sara Maldonado and Valentino Lanús star as protagonists; Ana Layevska, Margarita Magaña, Ingrid Martz, and Jackie García star as co-protagonists, while Raquel Pankowsky, Cristián Seri, Rodrigo Mejía, Maki Soler, and Raúl Araiza starred as antagonists.
Plot
Lorena, the more focused of the group, is a cute girl with a good heart. When she returns to school, Lorena's longtime boyfriend, Mariano, leaves her after he confesses that he loves her supposed best friend Tania.
Lorena runs home crying, and when she crosses the street, she clashes with Juan Carlos Domínguez, who falls in love with her at first sight.
Paulina, is a beautiful, sweet girl with a good heart, but also suffers from the death of her mother, who is actually alive, but her father and her aunt make her believe she died. Paulina's father shows little interest in her.
Fernanda is a wild shrinking girl who does not believe in love and can't control her nerves sometimes.
Daniela is a young innocent girl who gets her heart broken by her boyfriend Tono who suffers from a car accident and goes blind. Tono doesn’t want Daniela to spend her life suffering and looking out for him so he ends up breaking up with her.
Cast
- Valentino Lanús as Juan Carlos "Juan Charlie" Domínguez
- Sara Maldonado as Lorena "Lore" Álvarez
- Maki Soler as Tania Vidal
- Jackie García as Daniela "Dany" Duarte
- Margarita Magaña as Fernanda "Fer" Pacheco
- Raul Araiza as Ezequiel Domínguez
- María Fernanda Malo as Marisol Duarte
- Patricio Borghetti as Patricio / "Pato"
- Miguel Ángel Biaggio as Antonio "Toño" Pacheco
- Ingrid Martz as Georgina "Gina" Rivero Fuentes Guerra
- Ana Layevska as Paulina "Pau" de la Mora Miraban
- Mauricio Barcelata as Mariano Alarcón
- Ilan Arditti as Adrián
- Gabriela Cano as Araceli "Ñoña" Fuentes
- Luciano Seri as Diego Santillán
- Cristián Seri as Oscar Santillán
- Juan Carlos Martín del Campo as Andrés Miranda
- Sergio Ochoa as Carmelo "Carmelito" Sánchez
- Alexandra Monterrubio as Cinthia "Cin" Linares
- Diana Osorio as Carmen "Carmelita" Pérez
- Rodrigo Mejía as Fabián "Sonrisas"
- Tina Romero as Mercedes "Meche" Pacheco
- Silvia Mariscal as Sara Domínguez "Doña Sara"
- Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez as Augusto Vidal
- Rafael Amador as Genaro Pacheco
- David Ostrosky as Rafael Duarte
- Miguel Ángel Santa Rita as Simón Robles
- Graciela Bernardos as Camila de la Mora
- Jorge Veytia as Artemio / "Chemo"
- Juan Carlos Colombo as Ignacio de la Mora
- Raquel Morell as Consuelo Duarte
- Lucero Lander as Lucía Álvarez
- Mariana Karr as Victoria "Vicky" Vidal
- Luis Gimeno as Nicolás "Don Nico" Domínguez / "Abuelo"
- Raquel Pankowsky as Bertha de la Mora
- Héctor Sáez as Braulio Zúñiga
- Ofelia Cano as Eugenia Robles
- Ivonne Montero as Carola Lizardi #1
- Yessica Salazar as Carola Lizardi #2
- Fátima Torre as Fátima "Fa" Álvarez
- Diego Sieres as Alberto "Beto" Duarte
- Polly as Leticia Guzmán
- Paola Flores as Pachis
- Otto Sirgo as Javier Álvarez
- Ricardo Vera as Bernal
- Adalberto Parra as El Risueño
- Carlos Amador as Santos
- Fernando Moya as Manuel
- Horacio Castelo as Mancera
- Joshua Tacher as Francisco / "Zico"
- Miguel Garza as Luis
- Fernanda Polín as Paloma
- Rolando Matus Blas as Benjamín
- Norma Iturbe
- José Maria Negri
References
- "El juego de la vida" (in Spanish). alma-latina.net. Archived from the original on June 21, 2003. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
External links
- Official website at esmas.com (in Spanish)
- El juego de la vida on IMDb