Lorena (telenovela)
Lorena (telenovela)
Lorena was a Colombian soap opera, written by Bernardo Romero Pereiro and Jimena Romero, and produced and broadcast by RCN Televisión in 2005.
It starred Coraima Torres and Diego Ramos, with the antagonistic participation of María Cecilia Botero, Lincoln Palomeque, Amada Rosa Pérez, Ana Soler and Orlando Miguel. With the stellar performance of the first actor Gustavo Angarita.
The story was shot entirely in Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia, being one of the few national broadcast productions that was not recorded in the capital of the country or its surrounding areas. [1]
Synopsis
Lorena Morantes (Coraima Torres) thought that by marrying Miguel Ferrero (Diego Ramos), love would be enough to overcome all the rejection problems she had with her mother-in-law Rufina de Ferrero (María Cecilia Botero) and some of her other children.
However, destiny had prepared another even harder test for her, and before she could tell her husband that she was pregnant, he disappeared in a shipwreck caused by a storm.
She feels ready to die, but the birth of her son forces her to accept life with her in-laws in spite of knowing that her mother-in-law and brothers-in-law Rodolfo (Guillermo Vives), Gerardo (Orlando Miguel) and Rebeca (Amada Rosa Perez), think of her as an intruder who is only after the inheritance of Miguel.
The truth that nobody knows is that Miguel was rescued in a coastal city by some fishermen who left him in the hands of the doctor Silvia Rivero (Ana Soler).
Miguel recovers from amnesia and soon, he develops a relationship with Silvia, as he does not remember anything from his previous life.
Meanwhile, Lorena must accept her new life, while her mother-in-law and Juan (Lincoln Palomeque), another of her brothers-in-law, plan how to make the old and sick Mateo disappear and take over the Ferrero's fortune.
They plot to make sure the inheritance does not end up with Lorena's son.
Juan's plan is to get Lorena to fall fall in love with him.
With time, Miguel recovers his memory and when trying to return, Rufina makes him believe that his wife has started a new life with Juan and that they had a child together.
Lorena's love of Miguel, the advice of her friend Camila (Susana Torres) and her sister Mariela (Adriana Silva), will be the only thing that keeps her sane and focussed against the adversity of Muguel's family who try their best to destroy everyhing she has.
Cast
Coraima Torres - Lorena Morantes
Diego Ramos - Miguel Ferrero
María Cecilia Botero - Rufina De Brigard de Ferrero
Gustavo Angarita - Mateo Ferrero
Lincoln Palomeque - Juan Ferrero
Ana Soler - Silvia Rivera
Amada Rosa Pérez - Rebeca de Ferrero
Orlando Miguel - Gerardo Ferrero
Susana Torres - Camila de Ferrero
Guillermo Vives - Rodolfo Ferrero
Jaime Santos - Efraín
Ana María Arango - Rosa
Valentina Acosta - Tatiana
Juan Sebastián Aragón - Julio
Adriana Silva - Mariela Morantes
Pilar Brescia Álvarez - Emilia
Adriana Romero - Grethel
Kepa Amuchastegui - Ángel Márquez
Leonor Arango - Dorita
Felipe Calero - Salvador
Mónica Chávez - Dorotea
Gerardo de Francisco - Alfredo Madero
Karen Escobar - Amanda Ferrero
Guillermo Gálvez - Dr. París
Luisa Fernanda Giraldo - Emperatriz
Orlando Lamboglia - Raúl Falcón
Felipe Noguera - Padre Mauricio
Víctor Hugo Cabrera - Dr. Victor
Argemiro Castiblanco
Curiosities
After a long career in theater and television, the role of Rufina de Ferrero was the first antagonistic character that Maria Cecilia Botero played.
To do so, the actress radically changed her physical appearance.
The role of Rebeca de Ferrero, an alcoholic who commits suicide, was the last in the career as an actress of Amada Rosa Perez.
During the filming of the telenovela, Amada Rosa suffered from a serious hearing impairment that also compromised the mobility of her face, from which she only recovered three years later.
The young actress moved completely away from the screens trying to recover from what she called "an empty and completely disoriented life", which had led her to have an abortion in 1999 and later to attempt suicide.
Amada Rosa has since joined the Catholic movement Marian Love Ties and is currently leading a religious movement against abortion.
Lorena was the last story written by award-winning and renowned actor, director and screenwriter Bernardo Romero Pereiro before his death on August 4, 2005.
This telenovela features the daughters of director and screenwriter Bernardo Romero Pereiro, writer Jimena Romero Henríquez with her father, and actress Adriana Romero Henríquez, a member of the telenovela's cast in a supporting role.