''Sucupira'' is a

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produced and broadcast by

Televisión Nacional de Chile Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is a Chilean public service broadcaster. It was founded by order of President Eduardo Frei Montalva and it was launched nationwide on 18 September 1969. Since then, the company has been reorganized on sever ...

from March 11 to August 9, 1996, starring

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, Francisco Reyes, Ángela Contreras and

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. It is based on the 1973 Brazilian telenovela ''

O Bem-Amado ''O Bem-Amado'' is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called ''Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte'', written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela ...

'' produced by

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. As with other installments during the so-called "golden age of TVN", the production featured an extensive cast, a greater focus on comedy, and an exotic location (the fictional seaside town of Sucupira, shot in

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and

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)

Plot summary

The long-serving mayor of a sleepy fishing town is eager to inaugurate his latest campaign promise, a cemetery, but his plans are constantly thwarted by the absence of deaths in the community. The central love triangle is formed by the mayor's free-spirited daughter as she chooses between the town's doctor and the local reporter, both bitter adversaries of her father. The various antics of the town's colorful denizens occupy much of the plot.

Cast

Main cast

as ''Federico Valdivieso Montt'' * Ángela Contreras as ''Bárbara Valdivieso Fernández'' * Francisco Reyes as ''Esteban Onetto Sanfuentes'' *

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as ''Sofía Montero'' *

as ''Rafael Aliaga''

Supporting cast

as ''Mariana Montero'' *

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as ''Ambrosio Campos'' *

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 ...

as ''Luisa Lineros'' *

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 ''Renato Montenegro'' *

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 ''Regina Lineros'' *

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as ''Dora Lineros'' *

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as ''Segundo Fábrega'' *

Claudia Burr Claudia Andrea Burr Huerta (Santiago, October 1, 1968) is a Chilean film and television actress. Her first appearance on television was in ''Marrón Glacé'' telenovela on Channel 13. She stood out in the television series '' Estúpido Cupido ...

as ''Soledad Campos Gutiérrez'' * Álvaro Morales as ''Raimundo "Rucio" Prado Cárdenas'' *

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as ''Elena Domínguez'' * as ''Ramiro Portela'' * Ana Reeves as ''Carmen Gutiérrez'' * Óscar Hernández as ''Carlos López'' *

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as ''Olguita Marina'' *

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as ''Rodrigo Valdivieso Fernández'' *

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as ''Cristián López Domínguez'' *

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as ''Daniela López Domínguez'' *

Pablo Schwarz Pablo Alfonso Schwarz Rabinovich (born Santiago, 9 October 1970) is a Chilean actor, noted for his extensive television, theater and film career. Raised in a family of teachers and actors, he began his theatrical career when he was only 9 yea ...

as ''Juan Aravena "Juan del Burro"'' *

Amparo Noguera María Amparo Noguera Portales (born March 6, 1965), is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress. Amparo is the daughter of the actor Héctor Noguera Illanes and Isidora Portales. Her grandfather, Héctor Noguera Prieto was descendant of ...

as ''Norma Órdenes'' *

Francisco Melo Juan Francisco Melo Miquel (born February 14, 1966) is a Chilean actor, producer and also model. His first TV performance was in the TVN program ''Mea Culpa'' in 1993. From then on he has appeared in several soap operas, movies and TV shows. ...

as ''Diógenes Tobar'' *

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 ''Susana de Portela'' *

Juan Pablo Bastidas ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

as ''Fernando Rovira'' *

Valentina Pollarolo Valentina Pollarolo Guiraldes (Santiago, February 20, 1974) is a Chilean actress and screenwriter. She was a regular face on Chilean telenovelas of the '90s. Her most popular character was ''Paola Cárcamo'' in the TV series ''Playa Salvaje'' ...

as ''Rocío Ureta'' * Mario Montilles as ''Padre Damián'' * Mireya Véliz as ''Hilda Moya'' * Ana Luz Figueroa as ''Carla Silva'' * Catalina Olcay as ''Francisca Silva'' *

Mónica Godoy Mónica Alejandra Godoy Cabezas (born May 9, 1976) is a Chilean actress. She was born in Santiago, and began her career at the Chilean channel Televisión Nacional de Chile. The actress was notably successful for her role of Scarlette in the t ...

as ''Loreto Inostroza'' * Maité Pascal as ''Claudia Briceño'' * Ricardo Pinto as ''Jeremías Alegría'' *

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as ''El Cincuenta'' * Samuel Guajardo as ''El Cabeza de Corcho'' * Juan Carlos Montaña as ''El Pata de Jaiva'' * Andrea Molina as ''Luna del Alba'' * Carolina Infante as ''Catalina García'' * Jaime Davagnino as ''Ángel''

References

External links

* 1996 telenovelas Televisión Nacional de Chile telenovelas 1996 Chilean television series debuts 1996 Chilean television series endings Spanish-language telenovelas {{Chile-tv-prog-stub