Amores de mercado (2006 TV series)

For the 2001 Chilean show, see Amores de mercado (Chilean TV series).

Amores De Mercado (Love at The Market) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States–based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006, to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica.

Amores de mercado
Created by	Basilio Álvarez
Written by	Basilio Álvarez Irene Calacano Gennys Perez Eric Vonn
Directed by	Rodolfo Hoyos Andrés Bermann
Starring	Paola Rey Mauricio Islas Michel Brown Vanessa Villela Jorge Cao
Theme music composer	Miguel De Narváez
Opening theme	Amores de mercado eres tú by Alexa Hernández
Country of origin	Colombia United States
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	123
Production
Executive producer	Hugo León Ferrer
Cinematography	Mauricio Cadavid Roberto Cortés
Editor	José Luis Varón
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42-45 minutes
Original release
Network	RTI Producciones Telemundo
Release	June 14, 2006 (2006-06-14) – January 12, 2007 (2007-01-12)

This show was retitled simply Amores in mid-run. Head writer Basilio Alvarez was replaced by Eric Vonn and the storylines and characters went in a new direction. When Telemundo reaired the show in daytime in 2009, the shorter title was used for the entire series. BTV started to air this telenovela on November 22, 2006 in Bulgaria.

Story

Amores De Mercado tells the story of Fernando (Mauricio Islas), an ambitious man who driven by greed will do the unimaginable to his own family, Lucia (Paola Rey), a woman in search of her husband, and Diego (Michel Brown), an athlete who feels defeated by life. Lucia and Diego will meet and find a reason to love again and start over in life, however, destiny will put them to the test. This is a story of second chances and how love can save us when everything else is lost.

Cast

• Mauricio Islas as Fernando Leyra / Antonio Álamo – Husband of Lucía, Antagonistic Protagonist/Main villain
• Paola Rey as Lucía Martínez – Main heroine
• Michel Brown as Diego "El Rayo" Valdes – Main hero
• Vanessa Villela as Raquel Savater / Mónica Savater – Sister of Mónica, dies / girlfriend of Diego, villain
• Jorge Cao as Néstor Savater – Father of Raquel, Mónica and Lucía, villain
• Lully Bossa as Mercedes Martínez – Mother of Lucía
• Salvador del Solar as Eulalio Ocando Savater – Nephew of Nestor and his co-worker
• Juan Pablo Shuk as Manuel Medrano – Boyfriend of Mónica
• Júlio del Mar as Benjamín Santos – Adoptive father of Diego
• Sílvio Ángel as Luis Leyra – Father of Antonio / Fernando
• Silvia de Dios as Fanny – Suitor of Monica and Raquel
• Carlos Kajú as Tequeño Jiménez
• Raúl Gutierrez as Padre Pablo
• Leonor Arango as Elvira Leyra – Mother of Fernando, villain
• Christian Tappan as Gerardo
• Jullye Giliberti as Cristina Moreno – Friend of Lucia
• Sharmel Altamirano as Martha Aguilar
• Didier Van Der Hove as Roberto Gutiérrez – Father of Betty and Andrea
• Carmen Villalobos as Beatriz 'Betty' Gutiérrez
• Diana Neira as Andrea Gutiérrez
• Natalia Bedoya as Juliet
• Dafne Padilla as Laura Moreno
• Alfredo Ahnetr as Irinea
• Ramón Cabrer as Julio
• Ricardo Abarca as Adrián Leyra – Son of Lucía and Fernando, villain
• Jonathan Islas as David Miralvez.
• Laura Perico
• Andrea Montenegro

Script features

When Eric Vonn took the story in his hands, he rewrote all the rest of the story from about episode 40 to the end, and made it in his unique manner providing almost all the dialogues and scenes in ironic, sarcastic manner with many allegories full of black humor. Huge amount of violent and sadistic scenes involving main characters, and the manner of setting this scenes are although comic, all this features make novels of Vonn very different from all telenovela writers, in fact he is the only one writing telenovelas in a genre of black humor.

External links

• Amores de mercado at IMDb
• Official website (English, requires Flash)
• Telemundo official site (Spanish)