''Aquelarre'' (lit: ''Witches' Sabbath'') is a Chilean television drama series created by Hugo Morales and directed by

María Eugenia Rencoret María Eugenia Rencoret Ríos (born 11 November 1964), nicknamed "Quena", is a Chilean director and producer of telenovelas. Biography María Eugenia Rencoret attended the . Later she studied television production and direction at the Professiona ...

, and Víctor Huertathat originally aired on

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(TVN) and

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from August 4, to December 29, 1999.

Plot

This is a love story between Emilia (

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) and Juan Pablo (

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) who are members of two feuding families. This TV series is inspired by ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' chronicles which talk of the occurrence of a strange event. Aquelarre is located in central

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. For the past thirty years only females are born amongst the town's inhabitants, no male has been born within its boundaries. All men are thirty or more and those with less have come from outside of town. Three families control everything. Elena Vergara (

Coca Guazzini Silvia Beatriz Guazzini Monsalve (born December 22, 1953 in Santiago), best known as Coca Guazzini, is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress. Guazzini studied theatre at Universidad de Chile. She appeared in some popular Chilean telenov ...

) is a chemist who has developed a substance that prevents the birth of males. She has a son, Juan Pablo, who lives in Holland and has arrived back in town and he suffering from leukemia. He falls in love with Emilia, daughter of Bernardita (

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) has gone insane after her boyfriend Pepe Romano dumped her. Eduarda (

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) who cannot control her passion for Toro Mardones (

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), sweet Gustava (

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) is a local school teacher and the rude Ricarda ( Yuyuniz Navas). The home of Bernardita is a refuge for women Fernando (

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) 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 (

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), a woman who never wanted to see in your life.

Cast

Main characters

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as ''Diego Guerra''. *

as ''Emilia Patiño''. *

Bastián Bodenhöfer Bastián Lorenzo Bodenhöfer Alexander (Santiago, July 1, 1961) is a Chilean actor, theater director, musician and cultural manager. He served as cultural attaché of the Chile embassy in France between 2000 and 2002, during the government of p ...

as ''Ignacio Pastene''. *

as ''Juan Pablo Huidobro''.

Supporting characters

as ''Elena Vergara''. *

as ''Fernando Guerra''. *

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as ''Silvana Montes'' *

Mauricio Pesutic Mauricio Santiago Pešutić Pérez (b. Punta Arenas May 3, 1948) is a Chilean Actor with a long career on tv soap operas, film and theatre. He studied Drama and Film Direction at the Catholic University of Chile. He also wrote and directed 3 sh ...

as ''Prudencio Barraza''. *

Ximena Rivas Ximena Luisa Rivas Hanson (born Santiago, August 12, 1963) is a Chilean actress of theater, film and television. Acting career Her career began with one of the most important works of the Chilean theater ''La negra Ester'' (1988), where she p ...

as ''Poncia''. *

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as ''Miss Julia Moya''. *

Jaime Vadell Jaime Patricio Vadell Amión (born 6 October 1935) is a Chilean film, theatre and television actor. He is one of the most recognisable faces in Chilean telenovelas and cinema, having played key roles in films directed by Raúl Ruiz, Silvio Caio ...

as ''Pelayo, priest''. *

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as ''Cándida Morales''. *

as ''Eduarda Patiño''. *

as ''Gustava Patiño''. *

Patricia Rivadeneira Patricia Rivadeneira Ruiz-Tagle (Santiago, August 6, 1964) is an actress and a cultural manager from Chile. She was Chilean Cultural Attaché in Italy by the government of Ricardo Lagos Escobar, a job she carried out between 2001 and 2006. Betw ...

as ''Rodolfa Patiño''. *

as ''Toro Mardones / Pepe Romano''. *

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as ''Tina Torres''. *

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as ''Scarlett Jara / Pía Montero''. *

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as ''Gonzalo Guerra Bulnes''. * Lucy Salgado as ''Mireya Flores''. * Ana Reeves as ''Chela Ponce''. *

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as ''Celedonio Meneses''. *

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as ''Lorena Meneses''. * Íñigo Urrutia as ''Marcelo Guerra''. *

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as ''Carolina Meneses''. *

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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''. *

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as ''Isidora Orrego''. *

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as ''Rosita Moya''. *

Carmina Riego Carmina Riego Ramírez (born 24 March 1964) is a Chilean actress and cultural manager. She has played diverse charismatic and popular characters in telenovelas, occasionally in the comedy genre, and is best known for the role of Esmeralda Peralt ...

as ''Lourdes''. * Mario Montilles as ''Mr. Artemio'' * Mireya Moreno as ''Ruperta''

Guest appearances

Eduardo Barril Eduardo Andrés Barril Villalobos (born July 7, 1941 in Puerto Montt) is a Chilean actor and theatre director. Biography Born in Puerto Montt, he was the fourth of the seven children of Luis Barril Marquardt and Juana Villalobos Koghel. He gr ...

as ''Mr. Jorge Patiño''. *

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as ''Alicia Braun''. *

Schlomit Baytelman Shlomit Baytelman Albala (Hebrew: שלומית בייטלמן; Yiddish: שלאָמיט בייַטעלמאַן; born Afula, November 30, 1949) is a Israeli-born actress, director, and writer who became a naturalized Chilean citizen. She gained ...

as ''Mariola Bulnes''. *

Loreto Valenzuela Loreto Cristina Valenzuela Valdivia (born 3 July 1954) is a Chilean actress and director, recognized for her extensive career in theater and television. Valenzuela achieved great popularity in the play ' (1979), in the enigmatic and censored ' (1 ...

as ''Ivonne Garcés''. * Sergio Hernández as ''Maximiliano Jara Errázuriz''. *

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as ''Leticia Jara Ibáñez'' * Nicolás Saavedra as ''Rigoberto Rodríguez''. * Rosario Zamora as ''Dra. Olsen''

International broadcast

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References

External links

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