Muñeca brava
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Muñeca Brava is an award-winning Argentine
telenovela
, produced by Telefe
in 1998 - 1999. The television series was broadcast in more than 80 countries over the world, enjoying high ratings.
The show was written by Enrique Oscar Torres and directed by Hernán Abrahamnsohn, Gaita Aragona and Víctor Stella First episode was aired in Argentina on 10 October 1998 on channel Telefe
The play was filmed mainly in Argentina
(Buenos Aires
). Some of the episodes were filmed in Italy
and Spain
.The programme is known for launching the international career of Natalia Oreiro
.
She ends up becoming a house servant at the Di Carlo mansion when she turned 18, since she can no longer stay in the orphanage. In the mansion, she meets new friends, people who treat her as family; she also gains new foes who hate her for her tactless and feisty character. Most of all, she meets the love of her life, Ivo Di Carlo, the handsome heir of the Di Carlo fortune. Theirs was a love-hate relationship, decorated with funny antics they play on each other, and passion of their true love.
Ivo Di Carlo was a playboy, immature, and boastful guy. He had everything handed to him on a silver platter. But he lacks the love of a father as Federico Di Carlo makes him feel unwanted. Milagros, on the other hand, is religious, playful, and has a strong character. Their relationship survived many challenges, including issues that root from their parents' deceptive acts, secret love affairs, greediness, and ambition. As a playboy, Ivo also had several girls that went between him and Milagros, the most significant are Andrea, Florencia, and Pilar. Milagros also had flings of her own, she forged relationships with Pablo and Sergio.
At some points, the two even thought they were siblings as Federico Di Carlo was revealed to be Milagros' real father. However, it was also later revealed that Ivo was the son of Luisa Di Carlo's lover, Nestor Miranda. In the end, Ivo and Milagros survived the tests of their relationship and wed in front of the people they love.
Argentina
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telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
, produced by Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...
in 1998 - 1999. The television series was broadcast in more than 80 countries over the world, enjoying high ratings.
The show was written by Enrique Oscar Torres and directed by Hernán Abrahamnsohn, Gaita Aragona and Víctor Stella First episode was aired in Argentina on 10 October 1998 on channel Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...
The play was filmed mainly in Argentina
Argentina
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(Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
). Some of the episodes were filmed in Italy
Italy
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and Spain
Spain
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.The programme is known for launching the international career of Natalia Oreiro
Natalia Oreiro
Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias is a Latin Grammy-nominated Uruguayan singer, actress and fashion designer of Galician ancestry, who developed most of her career in Argentina. Oreiro began her career in soap operas. Since 2008 she has switched to work primarily in films...
.
Plot
The story revolves around Milagros and Ivo, two people who fell in love with each other amidst the odds against them. It is a romantic comedy novela that also touches on issues of family, wealth, greed, deception, and most of all—love. Milagros was brought up in an orphanage when her mother died giving birth to her. She has no idea who her father could be and spent all her years despising him for abandoning them.She ends up becoming a house servant at the Di Carlo mansion when she turned 18, since she can no longer stay in the orphanage. In the mansion, she meets new friends, people who treat her as family; she also gains new foes who hate her for her tactless and feisty character. Most of all, she meets the love of her life, Ivo Di Carlo, the handsome heir of the Di Carlo fortune. Theirs was a love-hate relationship, decorated with funny antics they play on each other, and passion of their true love.
Ivo Di Carlo was a playboy, immature, and boastful guy. He had everything handed to him on a silver platter. But he lacks the love of a father as Federico Di Carlo makes him feel unwanted. Milagros, on the other hand, is religious, playful, and has a strong character. Their relationship survived many challenges, including issues that root from their parents' deceptive acts, secret love affairs, greediness, and ambition. As a playboy, Ivo also had several girls that went between him and Milagros, the most significant are Andrea, Florencia, and Pilar. Milagros also had flings of her own, she forged relationships with Pablo and Sergio.
At some points, the two even thought they were siblings as Federico Di Carlo was revealed to be Milagros' real father. However, it was also later revealed that Ivo was the son of Luisa Di Carlo's lover, Nestor Miranda. In the end, Ivo and Milagros survived the tests of their relationship and wed in front of the people they love.
Cast
- Natalia OreiroNatalia OreiroNatalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias is a Latin Grammy-nominated Uruguayan singer, actress and fashion designer of Galician ancestry, who developed most of her career in Argentina. Oreiro began her career in soap operas. Since 2008 she has switched to work primarily in films...
as Milagros 'Mili' Esposito-Di Carlo de Miranda - Facundo AranaFacundo AranaJorge Facundo Arana Tagle is an Argentine actor. He has participated in more than twenty telenovelas.-Biography:...
as Ivo Di Carlo-Miranda Rapallo - Fernanda Mistral as Luisa Rapallo de Di Carlo
- Verónica Vieyra as Victoria 'Vicky' Di Carlo Rapallo
- Lydia LamaisonLydia LamaisonLydia Lamaison is an Argentine actress. She has appeared in 47 films and television shows since 1939. She starred in the film La caída, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
as Doña Angélica viuda de Di Carlo - Victoria OnettoVictoria OnettoVictoria Onetto is an Argentine actress who worked in many soap operas and films.Appeared on the April 2006 issue of Playboy Argentina.-Movies:* De mi barrio con amor * Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio...
as Adelina 'Lina' de Solo - Norberto DíazNorberto DíazNorberto Díaz , who was called Gallego by others in the entertainment industry, was an Argentine actor....
as Damián Rapallo - Mariana Arias as Andrea Ramos
- Silvia Baylé as Amparo Rodríguez
- Segundo CernadasSegundo CernadasPedro Cernadas , better known as Segundo Cernadas, is a telenovela actor who has gained international fame, both in South America and other parts of the world...
as Pablo Rapallo - Osvaldo GuidiOsvaldo GuidiOsvaldo Oreste Guidi was an Argentine cinema, theater and television actor, a dramaturge and theater director. He committed suicide by hanging....
as Bernardo Avelleyra - Valeria Lorca as Martha 'Martita'
- Gabriela Sari as Gloria Esposito
- Pablo Novak as Alfredo Luis Solo
- Gino Renni as Ramón García Parapuchino
- Marcelo Mazzarello as Morgan
- Arturo MalyArturo MalyArturo Maly was a Silver Condor award winning Argentine actor....
as Federico Di Carlo
Remakes
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