''Valientes'' (in Spanish, "''The braves''") is a telenovela from Argentina, aired by Canal 13 at the prime time and produced by Pol-Ka. Main actors are
Luciano Castro
Luciano Daniel Castro (born 16 March 1975) is an Argentine actor. He has worked as the lead actor in several successful telenovelas, such as ''Valientes'', ''Herederos de una venganza'' and ''Sos mi hombre''.
Biography
He was born in the Bue ...
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Julieta Díaz
Julieta Solange Díaz Núñez (born September 9, 1977) is an Argentine model and actress.Julieta Díaz at the
Arnaldo André
Arnaldo André (born November 12, 1943) is a Paraguayan actor for soap-operas. He spent most of his career in Argentina, where he has been active since 1964. He earned a Martín Fierro award in 2010, and his most recent work was in the ''Los úni ...
, and it is one of the most successful TV programs from Argentina of 2009. With a daily rating of nearly 27,4 points, it is the most successful production of Pol-Ka. It run from February 2009 to 2010. From April 16, 2010 the show was airing in
Slovakia
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on
JOJ Plus
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but due to poor ratings it was cancelled after 48 episodes, the rest of the episodes start broadcast on
JOJ Plus
JOJ Plus is a Slovak television channel owned by J&T Media Enterprises. It is the sister channel TV JOJ. The channel was launched on 5 October 2008 at 19:55 (7:55 PM). The channel broadcasts content that was shown on TV JOJ
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from March 6, 2012 taking the slot at 4 AM.
Premise
The main idea of the telenovela is a plot of
revenge
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by 3 brothers who used to live in the countryside, whose father was ruined by a businessman who took his farms. For this purpose they move to
Buenos Aires
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and work near him, in order to become his friends and confidants, and avenge his father by sabotaging his political career. The love stories of the show torn the characters between their sentiments and their loyalty to the plan.
The series replaced ''Por amor a vos'' on Channel 13 and was aired in the same time segment than the soap-opera ''
Los exitosos Pells
Los exitosos Pells (Spanish for "The successful Pells") is a 2008-2009 Argentine telenovela, produced by Underground Producciones and Endemol, and aired by Telefe. It started being aired on November 5, 2008, replacing '' Vidas Robadas'' at 10:30P ...
'' of Telefe. The idea was to confront the humoristic style of the later with a melodramatic telenovela. The dramatic tone of the series allowed a strong success among the male audiences, a rare event among Argentine telenovelas, which led to the high success of the program in audiences.
The success of the series led to a spin-off theater play by the main actors, reprising the characters from the TV but inside a humoristic story.
The ending of the series was followed by a "behind the scenes" production and a rerun of the last episodes. It was replaced by the soap opera ''
Alguien que me quiera
''Alguien que me quiera'' (English: ''Someone to love me'') is an Argentine serie tv produced by Pol-ka and broadcast by El Trece from February 1 to November 15, 2010.
Cast
* Osvaldo Laport as Rodolfo Rivera
* Andrea Del Boca as Rocío Mosco ...
'', of a less dramatic nature, but it didn't have much success. As a result, and attempting to keep the audience of ''Valientes'', ''Alguien que me quiera'' was scheduled to another hour, and another series was created, ''
Malparida
''Malparida'' (''The Wicked Girl'') is a 2010 Argentine telenovela aired by Channel 13 in the prime time. It ran from April 2010 to February 2011. It is protagonized antagonistically by ''Renata'' (played by Juana Viale), a cold and scheming wom ...
''. Heredia also works in this one, and it is also a story of revenge. Luciano Castro would also join ''Malparida'' some time afterwards.
Plot
The story started by events set in the past, when the landlord Laureano Gomez Acuña tricks Roque Sosa, his employee in his farm, into giving him the lands he intended to inherit to his sons. His wife Elisa Sosa is blackmailed to leave the country, and the 3 sons of Roque are sent to different locations. Roque Sosa dies shortly after. The main character of the story is Leonardo Sosa, one of the lost sons of Roque Sosa, who discovers the truth in his adulthood and intends to get revenge on Laureano. For this he locates his two brothers, Segundo and Enzo. Segundo was living at another farm and held under harsh conditions by his tutor, while Enzo was a criminal held in prison. Both of them are freed from those places by Leo, who designs new identities for themselves as Leonardo, Segundo and Enzo Morales. Then they install a car repair shop next to Laureano's home, with the intention of becoming known and gaining confident with him, and then be capable to disrupt his business and political career.
Leonardo soon discovers that Alma is his childhood girlfriend, but he can't tell her his identity because she has confidence in Laureano. He later found out that Laureano's daughter Juana had fallen in love with him and stayed with her to increase his trust in Laureano. However, Juana is very jealous of Alma and keeps attacking her and complaining to Leo. To avoid the risk of him leaving her, she falsely claimed that she was pregnant, and quickly after Juana and Leo get married.
The Sosa took advantage of the new filial relation of Leo and Laureano to keep disrupting his activities, while Laureano ignored who was opposing him. Married to Juana, but still loving Alma, Leo contacts her by internet as Leonardo Sosa and chats with her, while pretending to be in another country. When Alma requested to see him with a webcam, he requested Nicolás Ortega, an old friend from the Police, to chat with her posing as Leonardo Sosa, but it turned out against him when Ortega actually falls in love with Alma. However, when Laureano learns that Alma was dating Leonardo Sosa (ignoring as her the deception being done), he kidnaps and tortures him to death. When the kidnapping took place Nicolas's wallet was left behind, and with it Alma learns that he wasn't really Leonardo Sosa.
Incapable of maintaining the lie of being pregnant, Juana sets up a situation to blame Alma of making her lost her pregnancy, but when Leo discovers the whole lie he lefts Juana, regardless of the plan. Alma was with Patricio by then, a new character added to the story, but reunites with Leo. By the time Alma learns about Leonardo and Ortega being friends, Leo tells her the whole truth, including his real identity and the plan to harm Laureano. In the meantime, Juana was hospitalized and later gets amnesia during an accident. She recovers her memory a while afterwards, but did not say so because of being better treated by others when they thought she did not remember past crimes.
Two new characters are added to the story. Andy, a step-sister of Leo, joins the car repair shop, and Leo makes her a part of the plan immediately. Elisa Sosa, mother of Sosa brothers, is revealed to have faked her death, and while staying hidden from Laureano she was searching for her sons. She took part in a painting contest with her son, Enzo, but neither of them realized their relation because of using pseudonyms.
Cast
Awards
The series won the
Martín Fierro Awards
The Martín Fierro Awards ( es, Premios Martín Fierro) is the name of the most prominent awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists.
History
The awards were first g ...
to best telenovela, new actor (Alejandro Muller), secondary drama actor (Antonio Grimau), telenovela main actor (Arnaldo André) and telenovela main actress (Eleonora Wexler).Martín Fierro 2010: todos los ganadores
Spanish version
There is a Spanish version that was broadcast by
Cuatro
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Cuatro may also refer to:
* Cuatro (instrument), name for two distinct Latin American instruments, one from Puerto Rico (see cuatro (Puerto Rico), ...
from January 25, 2010 to February 25, 2010 and cancelled due to low ratings. It starred
Julián Gil
Julián Elías Gil Beltrán (born 13 June 1970) is an Argentine-Puerto Rican actor, model, businessman and TV host.
Personal life
Although Julián Gil was born in Argentina, he lived some time in Venezuela as well. He grew up in Puerto Rico an ...
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Marco de Paula
Marco de Paula (born 22 April 1977 in Sevilla) is a Spanish actor. He studied with Ofelia Angélica, Juan Carlos Corazza, Adam Black
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, Michel Gurfi and Marta Belmonte. The soundtrack was composed and sung by
Ruth Lorenzo
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