Café Con Aroma De Mujer (1994 TV Series)
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''Café con aroma de mujer'' ("''Coffee with the scent of a woman''") is a 1994
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
n telenovela produced by then programming company RCN Televisión on state-owned Canal A. It was created and written by
Fernando Gaitán Fernando Gaitán Salom (9 November 1960 – 29 January 2019) was a Colombian TV series and telenovela screenwriter as well as a producer. Career Fernando Gaitán was known for weaving different histories into diverse social contexts. He gain ...
. It was broadcast in several countries throughout Latin America,
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and Europe.


Overview

Teresa Suárez (
Margarita Rosa de Francisco Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as Margarita Rosa and La Mencha (born August 8, 1965) is a Colombian telenovela movie actress, singer, and TV presenter. Biography 1980s Margarita Rosa de Francisco was born in Cali, Valle Del C ...
), nicknamed "Gaviota" (Spanish for " Gull"), and her mother Carmenza Suárez, work as harvesters and throughout the year they travel to different farmlands across
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
searching for work. Each October, just prior to the harvest period in the coffee axis, they travel to the
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Casablanca in Filandia whose owner, powerful coffee businessman Octavio Vallejo, secures employment for them. One October, Vallejo dies and his family, spread over the world, heads back to Casablanca to attend the funeral. Once back in the hacienda after several years in London, his grandson Sebastián Vallejo ( Guy Ecker) meets Gaviota and only with her he is eventually able to overcome his fear of women. After a few encounters, Sebastián and Gaviota begin a short, but passionate affair that becomes for both of them their first true romantic experience. They keep their romance a secret, specially from his aristocratic family, but eventually he must leave back for London after his grandfather's funeral to finish his college studies. The pair agree to reunite in Casablanca exactly the same date the following year, once he graduates, to finally marry. Shortly after Sebastián's departure, Gaviota finds out she is pregnant. Finding no means to get in contact with him, distrusting his family and with no one else to turn to, she decides to travel to Europe herself to search for him, having been deceived by a network of
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who prey on her naivete by offering her a job as a model but actually hoping to exploit her as a
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in Paris. Sebastián returns to Casablanca the following year to keep his promise and, after searching for her in town, he finds out she went to Europe to work as a prostitute. Disheartened, and influenced by his avaricious cousin Iván Vallejo ( Cristóbal Errázuriz), he weds his friend Lucía Sandoval (
Alejandra Borrero María Alejandra Borrero Saa (born April 25, 1962) is a Colombian actress of film, stage and television. Personal life Born of a traditional family from Popayán, Borrero establishes a liberal life, where she manifests to be very different fro ...
) who accepts a lifetime in a completely sexless marriage just to be by his side. Gaviota, having assumed a new identity in Europe as Carolina Olivares, finally returns to Colombia but only manages to arrive at Casablanca the morning after Sebastián and Lucía's wedding ceremony has taken place there. Dismayed by the sudden turn of events, Gaviota looks for her mother and secretly leaves Casablanca for good in order to stay away from Sebastián and to find a better life in
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. Having much difficulty in the huge and unfamiliar city she eventually returns to the world of coffee, this time being employed by Cafexport, the coffee-exporting company owned by the Vallejo family, under her alternate identity as Carolina Olivares. After realising Gaviota's return to Casablanca and her almost immediate departure, and also regretting his hasty and love-lacking marriage, Sebastián decides to employ all his means to find her. Lucía eventually finds out about his previous story with Gaviota and vows to keep her marriage and fight by thwarting his plans, while Iván and his wife Lucrecia ( Sylvia de Dios) secretly plot to keep Sebastián and Gaviota apart in order to keep late Octavio Vallejo's wealth for themselves.


Impact

This telenovela marked a difference in Latin American telenovelas and the way they were created. The story involved both typical and modern parts of Colombia, taking place in the heart of Colombian coffee plantations, showing a panoramic and authentic view of the culture of Colombian coffee growers and the traditional heartland of Colombia's coffee-growing highlands, while also taking place in the capital city and providing an insight into the coffee business in an important coffee export companyAnna Marie de la Fuente
Beating the telenovela bushes for another 'Betty' - 'Cafe' may be headed for the U.S.
'' Variety'', 19 November 2006
and the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia. In a short time, ''Café, con aroma de mujer'' became popular among audiences of all ages and genders, to the point that it became popularly told how the whole country would "come to a standstill" when the show came on the air on weeknights at 20:00. Its competition on Canal Uno was '' Las aguas mansas'' produced by RTI Colombia, which would be remade in 2003 as the successful '' Pasión de gavilanes''. The lead star
Margarita Rosa de Francisco Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as Margarita Rosa and La Mencha (born August 8, 1965) is a Colombian telenovela movie actress, singer, and TV presenter. Biography 1980s Margarita Rosa de Francisco was born in Cali, Valle Del C ...
, already popular for her roles in ''Gallito Ramirez'' (1986) and ''Los Pecados de Inés de Hinojosa'' (1988) and for being a former Miss Colombia (second place in Miss World 1985), gave life to "Gaviota", one of the most popular characters in Colombian television and De Francisco's most important work.


Cast


Main cast

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Margarita Rosa de Francisco Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as Margarita Rosa and La Mencha (born August 8, 1965) is a Colombian telenovela movie actress, singer, and TV presenter. Biography 1980s Margarita Rosa de Francisco was born in Cali, Valle Del C ...
... Teresa "Gaviota" Suárez / Carolina Olivares Maldonado * Guy Ecker ... Sebastián Vallejo *
Alejandra Borrero María Alejandra Borrero Saa (born April 25, 1962) is a Colombian actress of film, stage and television. Personal life Born of a traditional family from Popayán, Borrero establishes a liberal life, where she manifests to be very different fro ...
... Lucía Sandoval de Vallejo * Cristóbal Errázuriz ... Iván Vallejo * Sylvia de Dios ... Lucrecia Rivas de Vallejo *
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... Carmenza Suárez


Supporting cast

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... Buitrago * Juan Carlos Arango ... Aurelio *
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... Miguel Alfonso Tejeiros de Caballero * Óscar Borda ... Harold McLein *
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... Roberto Avellaneda * Manuel Busquets ... Jorge Latorre *
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... Rafael Vallejo * Juan Ángel ... Mauricio Salinas * Luz Dary Beltrán ... Josefina *
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... Daniela * Gerardo de Francisco ... Francisco Vallejo *
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... Víctor Ángel * Myriam De Lourdes ... Ángela Sáenz de Vallejo *
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... Martha Benavides * Danna García ... Marcela Vallejo Cortez *
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... Dr. Carmona *
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... Daniela Reyes * Jacqueline Henríquez ... Graciela * Lina María Navia ... Paula Vallejo Cortez * Haydee Ramírez ... Marcia Fontalvo * Iván Rodríguez ... Reinaldo Pérez *
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... Arthur *
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... El Galtero *
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... Bernardo Vallejo Sáenz * Dora Cadavid ... Cecilia de Vallejo *
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... Matilde


Soundtrack

#Gaviota #Aroma de mujer - ''"Scent of a woman"'' #Entre dos fuegos - ''"Between two fires"'' #Volveran las Obscuras Golondrinas - ''"The dark swallows will return"'' #Mal Amor - ''"Bad love"'' #Sangra un corazón - ''"A heart bleeds"'' #A mi pesar - ''"To my regret"'' #As de Corazones - ''"Ace of hearts"'' #Como si nada - ''"Like if nothing"'' #Como un cristal - ''"Like a glass"'' #Vuelve - ''"Come back"'' #Café café - ''"Coffee - coffee"'' # Ni soy río, ni soy flor - ''"Neither am river, nor a flower"'' # Chapolera # Inquietud - ''"Concern"'' All tracks are sung by
Margarita Rosa de Francisco Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as Margarita Rosa and La Mencha (born August 8, 1965) is a Colombian telenovela movie actress, singer, and TV presenter. Biography 1980s Margarita Rosa de Francisco was born in Cali, Valle Del C ...
with the exception of «Sangra un Corazón», sung by Argentinian singer Luis Andrés Penagos. The telenovela's opening credits feature «Gaviota», but its Argentinian broadcast used instead «Sin tí» by
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.


Remakes

''Cafe con Aroma de Mujer'' was remade in Mexico twice. In 2001, TV Azteca first produced '' Cuando seas mía'' starring Silvia Navarro and Sergio Basañez as 'Paloma' and 'Diego'. In 2007, Televisa produced '' Destilando Amor'' with Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yáñez, changing coffee for tequila. In 2021, a different, modern version of '' Cafe con Aroma de Mujer'' has been remade by RCN Televisión, starring Laura Londoño and William Levy.''Laura Londoño será la nueva Gaviota en Café con Aroma de Mujer''
/ref> All the soundtracks in the 2021 remake are performed by Laura Londoño herself.


International release


DVD release

There are no plans to release the telenovela on DVD. However, there are
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copies of the show on DVD.


Sources


''Cronología del cine latinoamericano: 1990-2004''
Original Spanish article.


See also

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Café con aroma de mujer (2021 TV series) ''Café con aroma de mujer'' (English title: ''The Scent of Passion'') is a Colombian telenovela produced by RCN Televisión and distributed by Telemundo. It first aired on Canal RCN from 10 May 2021 to 24 September 2021. In the United States, i ...


References


External links

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Argentinian fansite
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