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''Carrusel'' () is a Mexican
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telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
produced by
Valentín Pimstein Valentín Pimstein Weiner (August 9, 1925 – June 27, 2017) was a Chilean producer of telenovelas. Biography Pimstein was the seventh child of nine in a Belarusian Jewish family (from Minsk), which owns a glass shop in Barrio Brasil in Santia ...
for
Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
in 1989. It's based on the
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(first televised in 1966), and produced by and broadcast on
Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
in 1989. It covers daily life in a Mexican
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and the children's relationships with a charismatic teacher named Ximena. Among other plot devices, it deals with the differences between the upper and lower classes of Mexican society – specifically as seen in a romantic relationship between Cirilo, a poor black boy, and a spoiled white rich girl, Maria Joaquina Villaseñor.
Gabriela Rivero Gabriela Rivero Abaroa (born September 15, 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico), better known as Gaby Rivero, is an actress and singer. Best remembered for portraying Maestra Jimena (character played in telenovelas Carrusel and Carrusel de las América ...
starred as main protagonist, while Janet Ruiz and Beatriz Moreno starred as main antagonists.
Ludwika Paleta Ludwika Paleta (; born Ludwika Paleta Paciorek on November 29, 1978 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish- Mexican actress. Early life and career Paleta was born in Kraków, Poland in 1978. When her father, the musician Zbigniew Paleta, was off ...
, Pedro Javier Viveros, Hilda Chávez, Flor Eduarda Gurrola, Joseph Birch, Abraham Pons, Mauricio Armando, Gabriel Castañon, Yoshiki Takiguchi, Manuel Fernández, Karin Nisembaum, and Silvia Guzmán starred as stellar performances.


Plot

The story begins with the daily lives of a group of schoolchildren from a Mexican primary school ("Escuela Mundial") and the relations of the latter with their teacher, Ximena. In the series, several issues about life, while stressing values such as love, trust and friendship touched.


The character of school

* Teacher Ximena Fernández is like the embodiment of all that is good. She is a teacher, friend and mother to her students. She shows friendliness and enormous patience, she is loved by all. * Cirilo Rivera is a good boy, and the only child of black ancestry in school. He is the son of a humble carpenter and a housewife who worship him to the utmost. * María Joaquina Villaseñor is a rich girl, daughter of a renowned and prestigious physician (Dr. Miguel Villaseñor). Beautiful, selfish, overlooked by her colleagues, but eventually learns to value the important things in life. * Laura Quiñones is a fat spread and romantic girl. She spends most of the day with a big sandwich in hand, and never missed an opportunity to let go a sigh and say, That's so romantic, or else, you are very anti-Romantic. * Kokimoto Mishima is a boy of Japanese origin and the only Asian child at school. Always with his karate belt tied around his head, he was one of the henchmen and bodyguard of Pablo Guerra in the early chapters and later was replaced on paper as right arm by Mario Pablo Ayala. His sentence was characteristic: "Yyyaaaaa yyyyaaaaaa!!!" (a battle cry used in
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). * Bibi Smith is a girl of American origin, "the gringo group" is a polite and gentle, very friendly girl. She speaks Spanish imperfectly, since she also speaks English. * David Rovinovich is a Jewish boy, angelic face and curly blond hair. Little David wastes no time with the girls, coming to fall in love with Valeria, one of his classmates. * Valeria Ferrer is the girlfriend of David Robinovich. She is a cheerful girl and joker character who helps others but cannot help her joking, she is not as bad as Pablo Guerra. * Jaime Palillo is a robust, stocky, rough and clumsy child, but also very brave to come forward and defend his friends, especially Cirilo. His biggest complication is the school subjects. It's low profile in studies but after all he does get some recognition. * Pablo Guerra is the naughty boy of the class, but often his jokes go too far, used to annoy his sister Marcelina and make jokes. * Marcelina Guerra is the sister of Pablo. Pablo would often make fun of her, annoy her and show the quality of dislike towards her but Marcelina still likes his brother no matter what. * Pedro Simishikis is the cousin of Maria Joaquina that only occurs on the birthday of Maria Joaquina. * Daniel Zapata is one of the top students in the class and the leader of the Patrulla Salvadora. He is regarded by all as a good friend and a good leader. * Carmen Carrillo a noble, kind, and loving girl who has to endure the difficult situation faced by her parents. However, she tries very well to succeed at school and she is very excellent in her notes at school. * Jorge del Salto is a rich boy, smug and pampered by his mother, who thinks he is superior to all children by their economic status, having empathy alone with Maria Joaquina, who is the only one whom he believes is in his class. * Mario Ayala is a boy living with his father and stepmother, the latter is an abusive woman who loves tormenting Mario because she does not consider him his son. The first coming to school, he responds badly to teacher Ximena which leaves him in the classroom crying, this causes him to be severely punished by his peers, later becomes the right arm of Pablo Guerra. * Alicia Guzmán is another of the girls attending the second year of teacher Ximena, being very fond of all the girls in the classroom, sharing many adventures with them once, suffering from an attack of appendicitis she had to be urgently operated on by the father of Maria Joaquina. * Margarita Garza is a native girl from Monterrey that came to live in Mexico City with her mother. A distinctive characteristic, wearing a different uniform from the school children in Mexico City (She wore the uniform of the headquarters of the Escuela Mundial of Monterrey) with jacket and cowboy boots. * Clementina Suárez was a child who initially was in the second year of teacher Ximena, but had to drop out of school because her parents suffered a traffic accident and were hospitalized in Guadalajara.


Cast


The children

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Ludwika Paleta Ludwika Paleta (; born Ludwika Paleta Paciorek on November 29, 1978 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish- Mexican actress. Early life and career Paleta was born in Kraków, Poland in 1978. When her father, the musician Zbigniew Paleta, was off ...
as ''María Joaquina Villaseñor'' * Pedro Javier Vivero as ''Cirilo Rivera'' * Johan Sierra as ''Pedro Simishikis '' * Joseph Birch as ''David Ravinovich'' * Gabriel Castañón as ''Mario Ayala'' * Hilda Chávez as ''Laura Quiñones'' * Manuel Fernández as ''Adrián García'' * Gina Garcia as ''Marcelina Guerra'' * Flor Edwarda Gurrola as ''Carmen Carrillo'' * Silvia Guzmán as ''Alicia Guzmán'' * Jorge Granillo as ''Jaime Palillo'' * Kristel Klitbo as ''Valeria Ferrer'' * Ramón Valdez Urtiz as ''Abelardo Cruz'' * Mauricio Armando as ''Pablo Guerra'' * Karin Nisembaum as ''Bibi Smith'' * Abraham Pons as ''Daniel Zapata'' * Yoshiki Takiguchi as ''Kokimoto Mishima'' * Rafael Omar as ''Jorge del Salto'' * Erika Garza as ''Clementina Suárez''


The adults

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Gabriela Rivero Gabriela Rivero Abaroa (born September 15, 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico), better known as Gaby Rivero, is an actress and singer. Best remembered for portraying Maestra Jimena (character played in telenovelas Carrusel and Carrusel de las América ...
as ''Teacher Ximena Fernández'' *
Augusto Benedico Augusto Benedico (December 20, 1909 – January 19, 1992), born ''Augusto Pérez Lias'', was a Mexican actor of Spanish origin best known for his role as "Don Alberto Salvatierra" in the soap opera ''Los ricos también lloran'' and his role as "Do ...
as ''Don Fermín #1'' *
Armando Calvo Armando Calvo (25 December 1919 – 6 July 1996) was a Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor. His father was Juan Calvo Domenech, a Spanish actor and his mother was Minerva Lespier, a Puerto Rican. Calvo worked in Spain, Italy, and Mexico appearin ...
as ''Don Fermín #2'' * Odiseo Bichir as ''Federico Carrillo'' * Rebeca Manríquez as ''Inés de Carrillo'' *
Johnny Laboriel Juan José Laboriel López (July 9, 1942 – September 18, 2013), known as Johnny Laboriel, was a Mexican rock and roll singer. His career started in 1958, when at 16 years old he joined the rock and roll group " Los Rebeldes del Rock". Laboriel ...
as ''José Rivera'' * Verónica con K. as ''Belen de Rivera'' * Arturo García Tenorio as ''Ramón Palillo'' * Adriana Laffan as ''Luisa de Palillo'' * Álvaro Cerviño as ''Dr. Miguel Villaseñor'' *
Karen Sentíes Karen Sentíes (born Karen Mireya Sentíes Ludwik on December 10, 1965, in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela actress who is known for playing in Spanish language telenovelas on Televisa and TV Azteca and in one Canadia ...
as ''Clara de Villaseñor #1'' * Kenia Gascón as ''Clara de Villaseñor #2'' *
David Ostrosky David Ostrosky Vinograd (born December 1, 1956) is a Mexican actor, active since 1984. Early life Ostrosky was born in Mexico, and is of Jewish descent. His father, Pedro Ostrosky, is Lithuanian Jewish from Kyiv, Ukraine, and his mother ''Gu ...
as ''Isaac Ravinovich'' * Gerardo Paz as ''Samuel Muñoz'' * Rossana Cesarman as ''Rebeca de Ravinovich'' * Beatriz Moreno as ''Directora Felicia Orraca'' * Raquel Pankowsky as ''Teacher Matilde Mateuche'' *
Alejandro Tommasi Alejandro Tommasi (born Alejandro Casares Tommasi; August 14, 1957) is a Mexican television, stage and film actor. Personal life Tommasi is of Italian descent. Tommasi came out as gay and married his 35 years old boyfriend, Óscar Ruiz, in Sept ...
as ''Alberto del Salto'' *
Cecilia Gabriela Cecilia Gabriela Vera Sandoval ( born January 9, 1962) is a Mexican actress known best for her work in telenovelas. She was born in Mexico City. Filmography Awards and nominations Premios TVyNovelas The Premios TVyNovelas are presente ...
as ''Roxana de del Salto'' * Marcial Salinas as ''Germán Ayala'' * Beatriz Ornella as ''Natalia de Ayala'' * Oscar Narváez as ''Ricardo Ferrer'' * Bárbara Córcega as ''Elena de Ferrer'' * Ismael Larumbe as ''Roberto Guerra'' * Erika Magnus as ''Isabel de Guerra'' * Manuel Guízar as ''Sr. Marcos Morales'' * Yula Pozo as ''Juanita'' * Janet Ruiz as ''Teacher Susana'' * Pituka de Foronda as ''Sara Ravinovich'' * Blanca Torres as ''Toña'' *
Ada Carrasco Ada Carrasco (14 September 1912 – 5 April 1994) was a Mexican film and television actress. Early life Carrasco was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Honorato Carrasco, an engineer, and the opera star Ada Navarrete. Career Carrasco sta ...
as ''Aunt Matilde'' *
Queta Carrasco Queta Carrasco (July 4, 1913 — August 8, 1996) was a Mexican character actress. Early life Enriqueta Carrasco Navarrete was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Honorato Carrasco and Ada Navarrete. Her father was an engineer and her mother was ...
as ''Aunt Rosa'' * Ignacio Retes as ''Sr. Ortiz'' * Tony Carbajal as ''Elías'' * Lupita Sandoval as ''Dorotea''


Awards


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrusel 1989 telenovelas Mexican telenovelas Televisa telenovelas 1989 Mexican television series debuts 1990 Mexican television series endings Television series about children Television shows set in Mexico City Children's telenovelas Mexican television series based on Argentine television series