Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
telenovela issued between 1998 and 1999 by Canal 13. It aired at 9:00 p.m. during
prime time
Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...
, Monday through Friday. It was produced by Pol-ka and the original idea was from Adrián Suar. The musical theme of the introduction is ''Gasolero'' from
Vicentico
Gabriel Julio Fernández Capello (born July 24, 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a musician and composer better known by his stage name Vicentico. Co-founder and vocalist of the band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs along with Flavio Cianciarulo. He was ...
.
Plot
The story is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle class family. The father of the family is Héctor Panigassi ( Juan Leyrado), a former bus collector who became a mechanic, who has a workshop with family and friends. Roxana Presutti (
Mercedes Morán
Mercedes Beatriz Morán is an Argentine actress, known for her role in the television miniseries ''Culpables''.
Career
Morán has worked in several TV programs, such as ''Donde pueda quererte'', ''Rosa de lejos'', ''Por siempre amigos'', ''Ga ...
), a woman married to a man she thinks she loves, Jorge Martínez Olmos, until she meets Héctor. Emilia (
Silvia Montanari
Silvia Montanari (January 14, 1943 – October 26, 2019) was an Argentine actress.
Life
Montanari was born in Quilmes Partido in 1943. She made her film debut in ''Masterpieces of Terror'' when she was eighteen.
When she was 21, she married the ...
), it is another central character in the plot, which has a bar that she got with a lot of effort, place in which many of the stories emerged throughout the series will occur.
Mercedes Morán
Mercedes Beatriz Morán is an Argentine actress, known for her role in the television miniseries ''Culpables''.
Career
Morán has worked in several TV programs, such as ''Donde pueda quererte'', ''Rosa de lejos'', ''Por siempre amigos'', ''Ga ...
as Roxana María Presutti
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Silvia Montanari
Silvia Montanari (January 14, 1943 – October 26, 2019) was an Argentine actress.
Life
Montanari was born in Quilmes Partido in 1943. She made her film debut in ''Masterpieces of Terror'' when she was eighteen.
When she was 21, she married the ...
as Emilia Nieto
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Pablo Rago
Pablo Rago (; born September 24, 1972 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actor. He has acted in the films ''The Official Story'' (as a child actor) and ''The Secret in Their Eyes''; both Argentine films have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign ...
as Bonzo
* Dady Brieva as Alberto "Tucho" Regüeyo
Co-protagonists
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Nicolás Cabré
Nicolás Gabriel Cabré Brickenstaedt (born 6 February 1980) is an Argentine actor and television host. Known for his film, stage and television work, he has won ACE Award and earned four Martín Fierro Award nominations. Cabré is also a regu ...
as Alejo Felman Presutti
* Manuel Callau as Jorge Martínez Olmos
* Cecilia Milone as Isabel Panigassi
Recurring cast
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Héctor Bidonde
Héctor Pastor Bidonde (born March 3, 1937 in La Plata) is a noted Argentine theatre, film and television actor.
He was a shift worker in a tool & dye factory when, in 1954, he was offered a part in Carlos P. Cabral's play ''Amarretes''. He was ...
as Benito Carrasco
* Alejandro Fiore as Juan Carlos "Vikingo" Eguía
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Melina Petriella
Melina Petriella (born March 2, 1976) is an Argentine movie and television actress.
Filmography
* ''Besos en la frente'' (1996)
* '' Esperando al Mesías'' (2000) aka '' Waiting for the Messiah''
* ''Nocturno'' (2001)
* '' El Abrazo partido'' ( ...
China Zorrilla
China Zorrilla (; born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; 14 March 1922 – 17 September 2014) was an Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplaten ...
as Matilde Arévalo de Presutti
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Nicolás Pauls
Nicolás Pauls (born December 20, 1973) is an Argentine actor and musician. The brother of actor Gastón Pauls,Nicolás ...
Valeria Bertuccelli
Valeria Bertuccelli (born 1969, 30 November) is an Argentine film and television actress.
Born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina she began her career in experimental theatre, and later worked in the San Martín a ...
as Elbita
* Rubén Rada as Liber
* Malena Solda as Luciana Nieto
* Matías Santoianni as Darío Panigassi
* Yaco González as Palo Santich
* María Fiorentino as Felicidad García
* Fabián Mazzei as Marcelo Gutiérrez
* Pamela Rodríguez as Sandra Nieto
* Luciano Leyrado as Javier
* Matias Camisani as Esteban
* Favio Posca as Bambi
Participations
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Víctor Laplace
Víctor Laplace (born 30 May 1943) is an Argentina, Argentine film actor.
Laplace was born in Tandil, Buenos Aires. The son of a watchmaking jeweler and a housewife. When he was 14, he started working as a metallurgist in a factory, there he als ...
as Gustavo Piccolo
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Carlos Roffé
Carlos Roffé (1 August 1943 – 31 December 2005) was an Argentine film and television actor active between 1969 and 2005.Carlos R ...
as Elías Fortunatto
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Martín Seefeld
Martín Seefeld (born 20 November 1960 in Olivos, Vicente López Partido, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actor, television host, television producer and radio host.
Biography
Martín Seefeld was born on 20 November 1960 in Olivos ...
as Martín Ferreyra
* Carola Reyna as Andrea Nuñez
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Patricia Castell
Patricia Castell, born Ovidia Amanda Paramidani Padín (25 April 1926 – 29 September 2013), was an Argentine actress, appearing on radio, television and in films. Born in Avellaneda in 1926, her career began in the 1940s and lasted for more t ...
as Irma Olmos
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Enrique Morales
Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin.
Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk (Dut ...
as Carlos Martínez Olmos
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Alejandra Da Passano
María Alejandra Ana Da Passano (26 July 1947 – 30 June 2014), better known as Alejandra Da Passano, was an Argentine actress of film, stage and television. Her best known films were ''El Señor Presidente'' (1970), '' Malevo'' (1972), an ...
as Berta Rosenthal
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Martín Adjemián
Martín Adjemián (December 12, 1932 – January 3, 2006) was an Argentine film and television actor of Armenian descent. He worked in the cinema of Argentina.Héctor Anglada
Héctor Anglada (January 31, 1976 – March 2, 2002) was an Argentinian film and television actor.
He died in a road accident.
Filmography
* ''Cuesta abajo'' (1995)
* '' La Furia'' (1997) aka ''The Fury''
* '' Mala época'' (1998)
* '' Piz ...
Cristina Banegas
Cristina Banegas (born 26 February 1948) is an Argentine film, TV and stage actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1965.
Selected filmography
Awards
*International Emmy Award
The International Emmy Awards, or Internati ...
as Dr. Eva Belloso
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Juan Darthés
Juan Rafael Pacífico Dabul (born 28 October 1964), known as Juan Darthés, is a Brazilian former actor and singer who spent most of his life and professional career in Argentina.
Biography
Juan Darthés was born as Juan Rafael Pacífico Dabul i ...
as Pedro
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Gabriela Toscano
Gabriela Rosana Toscano (born October 25, 1965, in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan actress who works in Argentina.
Biography
Gabriela Toscano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on October 25, 1965. She moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, at an ...
as Graciela
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Claudia Fontán
Claudia Gabriela Fontán (born October 4, 1966 in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actress, host to radio and television. She has worked in several Argentine telenovelas, such as ''Sos mi vida'', '' Son amores'', '' Amor en ...
as Marina
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Coraje Ábalos
Roberto Coraje Ábalos (born 16 August 1972) is an Argentine film and television actor. He has appeared in more than fifteen TV shows.
Biography
He worked at the consulate of New York, in an area of “promoción de la Argentina como destino ...
as Juan
* as Nancy
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Érica Rivas
Érica Rivas (; born 1 December 1974) is an Argentine actress. She gained recognition for playing María Elena Fuseneco in the sitcom '' Casados con hijos'' (2005–2006).
Career
Rivas was born in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires Province. She liv ...
as Paula
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Andrea Campbell
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Mercedes Scápola
Mercedes Gloria Scápola Morán (born April 25, 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actress. She became famous thanks to the 2012 soap opera ''Graduados'' and the 2014 soap opera ''Guapas'', both telenovelas''.'' She is the daughter ...
as Teresa
* Laura Miller as Gladys
* Vivian El Jaber as Dina
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Alejandro Lerner
Alejandro Federico Lerner (born June 8, 1957) is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sung countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America.
Through his career, Lerner ...
as Federico
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Martín Karpan
Carlos Martín Karpan (born June 3, 1974 in Villa del Parque, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine- Colombian actor, notable for playing a villain in the telenovela ''El Cuerpo del Deseo'' and ''Te Voy a Enseñar a Querer''.
Personal life
He ...
as Rubén
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Juan Gil Navarro
Juan Manuel Gil Navarro (born August 15, 1973) is an Argentine actor, screenwriter, television producer and film director.
Biography
Juan Gil Navarro is the son of Manuel Gil, a journalist and Alejandra Navarro, a secretary. Juan Gil Navarro s ...
as Wolfrang
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Violeta Urtizberea
Violeta Urtizberea (February 19, 1985) is an Argentine actress. She worked once again with her father in the 2012 telenovela ''Graduados''.
Biography
She is the granddaughter of the journalist Raúl Urtizberea, daughter of the actor Mex Urtizber ...
as Milena
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Claudia Albertario
Claudia Albertario (; born May 16, 1977) is an Argentine model, vedette and actress of theatre, television and film. Her notable credits include ''Amigovios'' (1995), ''Como pan caliente'' (1996), ''Montaña rusa, otra vuelta'' (1997), '' Chiqu ...
as Tamara
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Diego Peretti
Diego Peretti (born 10 February 1963) is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and former psychiatrist.
Peretti was born in Buenos Aires, and practiced as a psychiatrist for fourteen years. He took part in several movies and TV series, including ...
Arturo
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Carmen Vallejo
Carmen Vallejo (La Plata, Argentina, November 26, 1922 Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an Argentinian actress and comedian.
Biography
Vallejo began her career in theater and later debuted on radio. She was married to musician Oscar Aleman, with wh ...
Mirta Busnelli
Mirta Busnelli (born January 13, 1946) is an Argentine actress.
Awards
Nominations
* 2013 Martín Fierro Awards
** Best secondary actress (for ''Los vecinos en guerra
''Los Vecinos en Guerra'' ( es, Neighbors at War) also stylized as ''Vec ...
as Ana Clara
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Mike Amigorena
Ricardo Luis Amigorena (born May 30, 1972 in Maipú, Mendoza Province, Argentina), better known as Mike Amigorena is an Argentine actor.
Biography
He was born in Maipú, Mendoza Province to a Basque Argentine father and an Italian Argentine m ...
as Matías
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Luciano Cáceres
Luciano Cáceres (born January 24, 1977 in Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actor. He is primarily known for exclusively playing villain roles in most of the telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama o ...
as Nicolás
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Joaquín Furriel
Joaquín Alejandro Furriel (born August 26, 1974) is an Argentine actor.
Biography
Joaquín Furriel was born on August 26, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but he grew up in Adrogué, Gran Buenos Aires. At the age of thirteen, he participate ...
as Gerardo
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Adrián Yospe
Adrián Ezequiel Yospe (12 February 1970 – 10 November 2011) was an Argentine actor.Adrián Yospe at