''En Cuerpo Ajeno'' (literally, "In a borrowed body") is a 1992 Spanish-language
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'' ...
from original idea written by
Julio Jiménez, produced by
RTI Producciones
RTI Colombia, also known as Radio Televisión Interamericana (Inter-American Radio and Television), is a Colombian television production company and former ''programadora''. It aired 14.5 hours per week of programming in 1993.
In the 1990s, as a ...
(Formerly RTI Television), filmed in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...
.
Plot
Pedro José Donoso (Julio Medina), an older wealthy and widowed businessman marries his assistant even at the risk of straining his relationship with his daughter and being judged by society. After the marriage Donoso starts experiencing agitated strange nightmares with recurrent scenes of peasant and country life and a woman calling "Salvador" in the distance.
Meanwhile his new wife, Isabel Arroyo (Amparo Grisales) plots to poison him and inherit. Aided by her lover, company executive and Donoso´s protégée, Andres Coronado (Armando Gutierrez)
[Andres Coronado (Armando Gutierrez) suffers a nervous breakdown with the manipulation of Pedro José Donoso (Julio Medina/Danilo Santos)
] with whom she plans to remarry.
Donoso has an argument with his daughter, which is used by Isabel to poison him. He retires to his study with pain in his chest where he plays his piano and dies. Simultaneously, the mysterious peasant suffers a stroke and in the middle of the procession of his funeral awakens. Donoso had reincarnated in the young and handsome peasant to discover he was murdered.
Donoso, now Salvador Cerinza (Danilo Santos), escapes the village to avenge his death and treason and becomes chauffeur to Isabel. Once in the manor he enters the sealed study through a secret passage and starts playing the same melody as when he died to torment his murderer.
Salvador uses his closeness and manipulates inside knowledge to enamour Isabel. A tormentous love affair ensues. Salvador regains control of his wealth and remarries Isabel to later reveal to his daughter that she was not the cause of his stroke and reveal his true murderers and die.
Cast
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Amparo Grisales
Amparo Grisales de Tessarolo (born Amparo Grisales Patiño September 19, 1956) is a Colombian actress. Best known for her role as Lucrecia Rivas in '' The Mafia Dolls.'' Also starred in the 2007 Telemundo serial ''Madre Luna'' ("''Mother Moon''" ...
as Isabel Arroyo de Donoso / de Coronado / de Cerinza
* Armando Gutiérrez as Andrés Coronado
* Danilo Santos as Salvador Cerinza / Pedro José Donoso
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Julio Medina
Julio Medina Salazar (born 16 January 1933) is a retired Colombian actor. He is notable for his debut work in ''Gunsmoke'' and for his award-winning role in ''Las aguas mansas''. For nearly thirty years, Median worked and lived in Los Angeles u ...
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as Pedro José Donoso* Maribel Abello as Abigaíl Domínguez
* Ramiro Meneses as Simón Domínguez
* Alvaro Bayona as Walter Franco
* Érika Shütz as Ángela Donoso
* Carlos Congote as Antonio Domínguez
* Liesel Potdevin as Valeria
* Lucy Martínez as Gaetana Charrie
* Julio Pachón as Jardinero
* Constanza Gutiérrez as Cantalicia Muñetón
* Samara de Córdova as Rebeca Macedo
* María Eugenia Arboleda as Lupe
* Rosalba Goenaga
* Iris Oyola
* Delfina Guido
* Stella Rivero
* John Alex Toro
* José Rojas
* Marcela Carvajal
[Pictures of all the cast from YouTube
]
See also
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El Cuerpo del Deseo
''El cuerpo del deseo'' (literally: ''The Body of Desire''), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and filmed in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his be ...
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References
External links
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*Entrevista a Juli
Medina*Facebook Page En Cuerp
Ajeno
Colombian telenovelas
Spanish-language telenovelas
1992 telenovelas
1992 Colombian television series debuts
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