Pampa Ilusión
Pampa Ilusión (Illusion of Pampa) is a Chilean telenovela produced by TVN. It was written by Víctor Carrasco, Larissa Contreras, María José Galleguillos and Alexis Moreno. Directed by Vicente Sabatini. Set in the desolate interior of the Atacama Desert in 1934 it classifies both as a historical romance and a working-class melodrama dealing with tyranny, classism and misogyny as principal motives, but given the wide array of characters there are substories centering in themes such as innocence, religious hypocrisy, unrequited love, narcissism, betrayal and prostitution.
| Pampa Ilusión | |
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| Genre | Telenovela |
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| Directed by | Vicente Sabatini |
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| Opening theme | "Y tenía un lunar" (Celia Gamez) |
| Country of origin | Chile |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 114 |
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| Original network | TVN |
| First shown in | Atacama Desert, 2001 |
Plot
In the Atacama Desert, lies the saltpeter (Nitrate) mine Pampa illusion, that after years of economic boom, faces an uncertain future due to global crisis.
The owner of this office is Mr. William Clark (Héctor Noguera), a despot, bedridden, English-born businessman who refuses to accept the end of his economic prosperity. The daily life and routine in the saltpeter mine is interrupted by the arrival of his daughter Inés (Claudia di Girolamo), a doctor, banished from the family along with her mother when she was a newborn. She will come to discover the reasons for the exile and humiliation suffered by her mother thirty years before, risking her life when her father orders aprehension of any unknown women who enters the office. to avoid detection she takes a double life: by day disguised as a man called "Dr. Florencio Aguirre" Mr. Clarck's GP and eventual confidant; and by night re-takes her true personality as Inés Clark.
Under the shadow of William, lives Manuel (Francisco Melo), his son (and unknowingly, younger brother of Inés), a weak and insecure man that spends his days trying to please and win the approval of his mentally abusive father and hide from him the near bankruptcy of the business.
Then there is Jose Miguel Inostroza (Francisco Reyes), Clark's right arm, an exemplary employee who follows Mr. Clark's orders blindly, even if the orders are harmful and abussive to the workers of Pampa Ilusion. His obedience is affected by the arrival of Inés, for whom he falls in love, Forcing him to choose between his loyalty and his principles.
Both as "Dr. Aguirre" and herself, Inés gets involved in the daily lives of the workers and administratives of the mine in the midst of the revolution against her father's oppressive rule, and slowly wins over the loyalty and friendship of the inhabitants both poor and wealthy. Among these are Clara Montes (Blanca Lewin), A wealthy socialité and feminist and Inés's primary confidant, and Alberto Quispe (Juan Falcón), Clara's secret lover and a peruvian miner fighting discrimination against his own.
Cast
Aristocracy
- Héctor Noguera as Mr. William Clark.
- Claudia di Girolamo as Inés Clark - Dr. Florencio Aguirre.
- Francisco Reyes as José Miguel Inostroza.
- Francisco Melo as Manuel Clark.
- Delfina Guzmán as Mercedes Jorquera.
- Luis Alarcón as Emilio Fuenzalida.
- Violeta Vidaurre as Amanda Jorquera.
- Eduardo Barril as Ángel Montes.
- Marés González as Elena Moncada.
- Alfredo Castro as Eulogio Martínez.
- Consuelo Holzapfel as Asunción Echeñique.
- Francisca Imboden as Isidora Fuenzalida.
- Blanca Lewin as Clara Montes.
- Antonia Zegers as Carmen Montes.
- Álvaro Espinoza as Ricardo Fuenzalida.
- Ricardo Fernández as Maximiliano Subercaseaux.
Inhabitants
- Tamara Acosta as Clementina Paita.
- Álvaro Morales as Melchor López - Gaspar López.
- Juan Falcón as Alberto Quispe.
- Amparo Noguera as Elisa Pereira.
- Néstor Cantillana as Tobías Pincheira.
- Claudia Cabezas as María Paita.
- Claudio González as Rómulo Verdugo.
- José Soza as Ivo Yutronic.
- Luz Jiménez as Lourdes Santana.
- Ximena Rivas as Julia Méndez.
- Pablo Schwartz as Serafin Gálvez.
- Erto Pantoja as Aparicio Meza.
- Óscar Hernández as Tomás Navarro.
- Carmen Disa Gutiérrez as Domitila Faúndez.
- Rodrigo Pérez as Arsenio Valle.
- Roxana Campos as Laura Fortuna.
- Sergio Hernández as Benito Valencia.
- Alessandra Guerzoni as Miss Emily Thomas Scott.
- Mauricio Inzunza as Carlos González.
- Daniela Lhorente as Libertad Navarro.
- Felipe Ríos as Luciano Pereira.
- María José Necochea as Esperanza Mardones.
- Eduardo Soto as Macario Ortega.
- Mireya Véliz as Bristela Monardes.
- Héctor Aguilar as Mario Weng.