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 Andreina Arocha, the daughter of a rich landlord, is captivated by the clowns, the wild animals, and a Gypsy fortuneteller who relates wonderful things the future has in store. Unbeknownst to Andreina, the fortuneteller actually sees a tragic destiny for her and something mysterious forewarns that their paths will meet again. One year later when the circus returns, Andreina has died of a fatal illness after giving birth to a baby girl. At the same time, Andreina's stepmother, Herminia, an unscrupulous and overly-ambitious woman, discovers that a Gypsy from the circus and her newborn have died during childbirth.
Herminia, who has twin sons from a previous marriage and wants them
to be sole heirs to the Arocha fortune, develops a devious plan and
carries it out with the help of a hired hand. One dark night, he
follows Herminia's orders to exchange the infants. In the crib, the
lifeless body of the infant Gypsy replaces Andreina's healthy child who
in turn is given to the Gypsies. The next day, the circus packs up and
leaves town.
One day the circus returns and so does Kassandra, who has grown to
be a beautiful young woman. According to Gypsy tradition, the woman who
raised Kassandra, her supposed grandmother, promised her hand in
matrimony when she was an infant to Randu, a rough young man who is now
the leader of the tribe.
Characters
Coraima
Torres as Andreina Arocha
Andreina is
an affectionate, vulnerable and very beautiful girl with a generous heart of
the Gypsy people. She is secretly in love with the young doctor Ernesto Rangel
and he is asked by Alfonso, Andreina’s father, to marry her to make her happy
before she dies. She is sick with leukemia and before she dies she marries
Ernest, makes a honey-moon trip and delivers a baby-girl from Ernesto who also
dies during his foreign trip.
Coraima
Torres as Kassandra
Kassandra is
a beautiful young woman, dark-haired with blue eyes, who is to marry to a
young, abusive and bossy leader of Gypsy nation Randu according to local Gypsy
traditions. In contrast, she is captured with Luis David, a young handsome man
she meets at the circus fair to fall in love with. Luis David decides to leave
the town and Kassandra to the course of life since he is aware she has to marry
the Gypsy baron.
Nury Flores
as Herminia Arocha
Herminia is
a cruel, despotic and merciless woman. She is the whole devil in what she thinks,
believes and does. She is the one to ruin lives of people around her. She
aspires to inherit the fortune of her husband and thus, she hates, Andreina as
her rival for the fortune to hunt. She takes a sin exchanging babies of
Andreina and young Gipsy girls to prevent Kassandra inherit the wealth of
Alfonso. in the meantime, Kassandra falls in love with her son and appears in
her own house to make her shocked.
Osvaldo Rios
as Luis David/Ignacio
Luis David
is a romantic, well-mannered and open-hearted one of the twins. He meets
Kassandra, kisses her but realizes he is not the one to be with her and disappears.
He cares of her reputation in the tribe leaving her behind.
Ignacio is an ambitious, mean and prudent as his
mother. He does not hesitate to deceive Kassandra to make his financial
position stronger.
Kassandra - telenovela
(1991 - 1992) - Coraima Torres, Osvaldo Ríos, Henry Soto
CAST
Coraima Torres ... Andreína Arocha
Osvaldo Ríos ... Ignacio Contreras
Henry Soto ... Randú
Raúl Xiqués ... Alfonso Arocha
Carmencita Padrón ... Ofelia Alonso
Nury Flores ... Herminia Arocha
Esperanza Magaz ... Dorinda
Alexander Milic ... Matías Osorio
Carlos Arreaza ... Tomás
Hylene Rodríguez ... Lilia Rosa Alonso
Iván Tamayo ... Héctor Quintero
Loly Sánchez ... Rosaura Osorio
Fernando Flores ... Simón
Verónica Cortez ... Yaritza
Juan Frankis ... Marcelino
Erika Medina ... Isabel 'Chabela' Contreras
Rafael Romero ... Glinka
Cecilia Villarreal ... Gema Salazar
Roberto Moll ... Manrique Alonso
Mimi Sills ... Elvira Alonso
Manuel Escolano ... Roberto Alonso
Miguel de León ... Ernesto Rangel
Saúl Martínez ... Doctor
Nelly Prigoryan ... Verushka
Lupe Barrado
Ron Duarte
Pedro Durán ... Calunga
Eduardo Gadea Pérez ... Juez
Margarita Hernández ... Norma de Castro
María Hinojosa
Félix Landaeta ... Dr. Carrión
Frank Moreno ... Comandante
Júlio Mújica
José Oliva ... Dr. Olivera
Carlos Omaña
Juan Ramón ... Himself
Writing credits
Delia Fiallo
Song: "KASSANDRA"
Written by: José Antonio Bordell
Singing: José Antonio Bordell
Original music
Federico Gattorno
Cinematography by
Jesús Méndez
Language : Spanish
Country: Venezuela
Directed by
Delia Fiallo
Produced by
Hernando Faria
Alberto Giarroco
Leonor Sotillo
Coral Pictures Corp. de Venezuela
Trivia
Earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Spanish TV series broadcast in the greatest number of countries - 128.
This telenovela lasted 150 episodes, and it achieved a significant amount of success outside Venezuela, it was extremely successful in its airing in Romania, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Syria, other Eastern European countries, Indonesia, Italy and other countries.
The Televisa telenovela Peregrina is a remake of this show.
The russian remake of the telenovela named "Prinzessa zyrka" was made in 2007-2008
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