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 Bárbara is an attractive woman raised in the thick jungle by a band of Venezuelan smugglers. She was madly in love with the handsome Asdrubal until tragedy smashed everything. When dome bandits rape her and butcher her beau, a mad desire for vengeance against men overtakes her.
Bárbara seduces the wealthy landowner Lorenzo Barquero and steals his
fortune. Grief-stricken, he descends into misery and alcoholism. Their
destructive relationship produces a lovely daughter, Marisela, who is
forced to live in despair with her tormented father.
Fifteen years later, Lorenzo’s dashing cousin Santos Luzardo opens old
wounds. This ambitious doctor from Caracas returns to claim ownership
of the family land. He soon discovers Doña Bárbara controls the area
with an iron glove, using sorcery and seduction to force her will on
the locals.
Santos refuses to surrender and fights to save his cousin and educate
young Marisela. Bárbara falls in love with Santos. As a result of her
love, she is driven to do anything, as
long as it means that Santos will be by her side.
Characters
Christian Meier as Santos Luzardo Vergel
Santos Luzardo is the one to represent civil life and sophisticated world. He is humble and intelligent. A doctor who graduated from the University in Venezuela. He is the person with the wide mind and generous heart. He struggles against orruption and for the justice. He is the inborn lawyer. He hates violence because he has grown in the abusive environment and believes for law and justice.
He is very optimistic and honest, cheerful and outgoing. He decides to serve for liberty and civilization and Donna Barbara is the woman with whom he has to battle to teach to live a new life. His emotions and feelings fluctuate between the hatred and love to Bárbara.
Edith González as Bárbara Guaimarán
Bárbara is a beautiful mestizo, plain, ill-mannered and ill-educated. She symbolizes the savageness. Her heart is broken and her feelings are eliminated after she was raped. She prefers to be cruel, merciless, fickle and impulsive. She hates men being hurt and deeply humiliated by the band of those who wronged her. However, she lived with one of men who raped her and she has a daughter from him. She manipulates people with the help of violence and seduction. She lives on her hatred and revenge. She never missed the chance to tell her daughter that she was born in hatred and Bárbara was even ready to sell her. She is ambitious since she lived with Lorenzo B for the sake of his money and then she threw him away. She is ingenuous in that she can make people do harm and fight with each other.
Génesis Rodríguez as Marisela Barquero Guaimarán
Marisela is the good flexible “product” to produce everything according to civil life. She is Lorenzo Barquero’s daughter. She is born in loveless relations and saved by Luzardo when she is found in miserable condition. She is the one Luzardo intends to care about. She suffers from being abused but later she is the one to defend her.
Doña Bárbara - telenovela
(2008) - Christian Meier, Edith González, Génesis Rodríguez
CAST
Christian Meier ... Santos Luzardo Vergel
Edith González ... Bárbara Guaimarán
Génesis Rodríguez ... Marisela Barquero Guaimarán
Humberto Arango
Katie Barberi ... Cecilia Vergel
Paula Barreto
Jimmie Bernal ... William Danger
Arap Bethke ... Antonio Sandoval
Martha Isabel Bolaños ... Josefa de Mujikita
Felipe Calero
Hermes Camelo
Jencarlos Canela ... Asdurbal
Marcelo Cézan .... Florencio Quitadolores
Bibiana Corrales
Jaime Correa
Tiberio Cruz
Naren Daryanani
Edgar Duran
Gary Forero
Raul Gutierrez ... Colonel Pernaalete
Herbert King
Roberto Manrique
Errssell Marca
Andres Martinez
Lucy Martínez ... Eustakia
Roberto Mateos ... Lorenzo Barquero
Hernan Mendez
Luis Mesa
Mimi Morales ... Altagracia
Amparo Moreno
Alejandro Muñoz
Nicolas Niño
David Noreña
Andres Ogilvie Browne
Julio Pachón
Esmeralda Pinzón ... Federica
Enrique Poveda
Paulo César Quevedo ... Balbino Paiba
Pedro Rendón
Iván Rodríguez ... Melezio Sandoval
Maritza Rodríguez ... Asuncion Vergel de Luzardo
Alejandra Sandoval ... Genoveva
Adriana Silva
Daniela Tapia ... Jervacia
Alberto Valdiri ... Mujikita
Lucho Velasco
Nicolas Votteler
Created by
Rómulo Gallegos
Writing credits
Valentina Párraga
Rómulo Gallegos
Song: Dame tu amor
Written by:
Singing: Estela Díaz
Produced by
Hugo León
Marlon Quintero
Brendan Fitzgerald
Aurelio Valcárcel Carrol
Telemundo
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI)
RTI Colombia
Trivia
This is the third telenovela based on Rómulo Gallegos' heroine
Forum Telenovela World - Doña Barbara
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