''Graduados, historias que no se olvidan'' ( es, The Graduates, stories that may not be forgotten) is a 2013 Chilean telenovela, a remake of the 2012 Argentine telenovela ''

Graduados ''Graduados'' ( en, link=no, The Graduates) is a 2012 Argentine telenovela that was broadcast by Telefe from March 12 to December 19. The plot concerns a group of people who graduated from high school in 1989 and reunite twenty years later. Th ...

''. It was aired by

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, and the man actors are

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, Ricardo Fernández and Bárbara Ruiz-Tagle.

Plot

The telenovela began in a 1993 high-school graduation. María Laura Falsetti was the girlfriend of Pablo Flores, the school's bully. She left the graduation party when she saw him having sex with another student. Andrés Jalifa, who was secretly in love with her, helped her to leave the graduation party, and had sex in the car. Unaware of this one-night relation, Clemente Falsetti ordered his daughter and Flores to get married, as she got pregnant. The narration makes then a time skip to 2013. Pablo works at Clemente's firm, and Andrés is a dog walker, hired by chance by María Laura. She confirmed with a DNA test that her son Martín was the biological son of Andrés, not the son of Pablo as she had always thought. Most plots revolve around the consequences of this reveal.

Production

The telenovela is a remake of the successful 2012 Argentine telenovela ''

''. It is the first remake produced at the channel

. The first actors who signed for the work were

and Ricardo Fernández. The Argentine telenovela made an extensive use of

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, in most cases 1980s Argentine Rock. The Chilean remake used both Chilean music bands, such as Upa! and Los Prisioneros, and Argentine bands highly successful in Chile, such as Soda Stereo,

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and Virus. Unlike the Argentine telenovela, the Chilean remake is not focused in

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of the 1980s, but in the 1990s. Mirroring similar productions from the Argentine telenovela, the production included an homage to the old Chilean TV show "''

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''", in a flashback with the main characters attending to it. The TV host

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, who worked at that program, took part in the fiction.

Reception

''Graduados'' was first aired in March 2013, and got more rating than competitor channels but by a narrow margin. On March 3 it got 13.9 rating points, against '' Mundos opuestos 2'' in Channel 13 and '' Apuesto por ti'' in TVN, both with 13.7 points, and ''

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'' by Mega with 13 points.

Cast

* Marcial Tagle as Andrés Jalifa *

as María Laura "Loli" Falsetti * Ricardo Fernández as Pablo Flores * Bárbara Ruiz-Tagle as Ximena Benítez / Patricia Rojas * Cristián Carvajal as Francisco "Tuca" Allende * Elvira Cristi as Verónica Sarmiento * Pedro Campos as Martín Flores/Jalifa * Eduardo Barril as Clemente Falsetti * Fernando Farías as Amir Jalifa * María Elena Duvauchelle as Hannah Talla * Natalia Valdebenito as Alejandra Aguirre *

Guido Vecchiola Guido Vecchiola Arellano (born November 16, 1973, Chañaral), is a popular Chilean actor in soap opera and film. He is of Italians, Italian and Basque people, Basque descent. Vecchiola was born in Chañaral and has two brothers. In 1993, GVecch ...

as Guillermo Aliaga * Elisa Alemparte as Claudia Jalifa * César Sepúlveda as Augusto Flores * Natalia Grez as Clara * Paulina Hunt as Betty * Aldo Parodi as Walter *

Carolina Mestrovic Carolina Veronica Mestrovic Moroni (born July 20, 1991) is a Chilean singer, actress and TV host known for her role in National Television of Chile, TVN's ''Rojo (series), Rojo fame contrafama'', where she won the "singers category" in 2008. ...

as Sofía Matic * Felipe Álvarez as Juan José Correa "Juanjo"

Guest cast

* Claudia di Girolamo as Cristina "Titi" Arregui * Juan Falcón as Fernando Ponte * Alessandra Guerzoni as Juana López *

Sandra O'Ryan Sandra O'Ryan (born December 25, 1960) is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress. She was born in Santiago, Chile. She is the mother of the actress María José Urzúa. Her first television appearance was in 1988 in Vivir Así, but she ...

as Inés Matic * Jaime McManus as Daniel Jalifa * Catherine Mazoyer as Sandra Assad * Macarena Sánchez as Azul Vega * Javiera Osorio as Luna Ponte * Benito Quercia as Musalem Jalifa * Grimanesa Jiménez as Marta Quiñones * Gabrio Cavalla as Dr. Alfredo Ripstein

References

External links

Official site
* {{Graduados 2013 telenovelas 2013 Chilean television series debuts 2014 Chilean television series endings Chilevisión telenovelas Spanish-language telenovelas