La traición (2008 TV series)

*La traición*
La traición
	Title card
Created by	José Fernando Pérez
Developed by	Telemundo ; RTI Colombia
Directed by	Mauricio Cruz; Agustin Restrepo; Santiago Vargas
Starring	Mario Cimarro ; Danna García
Theme music composer	Nicolas Uribe ; Oliver Camargo ; José Carlos Maria
Opening theme	"Me frena una razon"; Salvatore Casandro; Paola Vargas
Country of origin	Colombia; United States
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	106
Production
Executive producer	Hugo León Ferrer
Producer	Andrés Santamaría
Editor	Alba Merchan Hamann
Camera setup	Multi camera
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	Telemundo
Release	January 7 –; June 27, 2008
Related
	Madre Luna; El Juramento;

La Traición (Betrayed) is a Colombian–American telenovela co-produced by United States–based Telemundo and RTI Colombia. Telemundo debuted this serial on January 7, 2008, replacing Madre Luna. This show is also known as Betrayed.^[1]

Traición is based on the Colombian novel El Caballero de Rauzán, written in 1887 by Felipe Pérez. RTI Colombia made another adaptation of the story in 2000, titled Rauzán. As with most of its soap operas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Filming in Bogotá, Colombia, began in late October, 2007.^[2]

BTV started to air this telenovela on August 26, 2008, in Bulgaria. RTV Pink started to air this telenovela on January 26, 2009, in Serbia. TV Puls will start to air this novela on August 31, 2009, in Poland. Spain Nova (Spanish TV channel)

Story

This romantic saga features Hugo de Medina, a handsome, mysterious swordsman, with a reputation as a womanizer. His life crashes around him when he finds he suffers from catalepsy, an incurable condition marked by loss of voluntary motion. The same disease felled his father years before.

This dashing young man meets Soledad de Obregon, a gorgeous, refined girl and the two are bound together by sudden passion, though matters are complicated by Hugo's desire to hide his infirmity.^[3]

As the adoring couple prepares to marry, tragedy strikes again.^[4] Hugo's sinister brother, Alcides, who has always been in love with Soledad, betrays him and steals his betrothed. The rest of the telenovela deals with first Hugo's quest for vengeance and then his attempts to regain the trust and love of Soledad.^[5]

Production notes

This telenovela was originally announced with Mario Cimarro, Sandra Echeverría and Gabriel Porras as stars.^[5] Danna García replaced Echeverría and Salvador del Solar replaced Porras, who took the male lead in Madre Luna. Telemundo began airing ads promoting this show in September, before filming began. It apparently shortened the series from the original plan of 130 to 106 episodes.^[1]

Telemundo also took a shot at rival network Univision by having Michelle Vieth appear in first-run episodes of this show, while Univision aired Al Diablo con los Guapos from 2007. This highlights that the competition rebroadcasts serials that already aired in Mexico several months ago, while Telemundo usually airs original programming. Michelle Vieth is thus one of the few soap performers to appear on competing US networks at the same time.^[6]

Cast

Mario Cimarro .... Hugo de Medina / Alcides de Medina - Main hero/His twin-brother
Danna García .... Soledad de Obregón
Michelle Vieth....Michelle Phillips
Ismael La Rosa... Daniel Von Sirak
Harry Geithner .... Francisco/Paco/Paquito
Cesar Mora .... Guillermo Burke
Virna Flores....Eloísa Renán
Rossana Fernández-Maldonado .... Beatriz de Linares
Mónica Franco .... Rebeca Montenegro
Luz Estella Luengas .... Esther de Obregon
Germán Rojas .... Lucas de Obregon
Victoria Góngora .... Helena Burke
Flavio Peniche .... Boris
Natalia Giraldo .... Tia Antonia
Indhira Serrano .... Ursula
Liliana Zalazar .... Marina
Sergio Gonzalez .... Doctor Max
Tiberio Cruz .... Hercules - Arturo's ex-servant, in love with Margot
Salvador del Solar .... Arturo de Linares
Paulo Quevedo... Vladimir
Ricardo Saldarriaga
Diego Camacho
Rene Figueroa
Tommy Vásquez
Andrés Martínez
Esmeralda Pinzón .... Matilde
Tania Falquez .... Alcides' and Hugo's mother
Bastian Madiedo
Javier Zapata
Cesar Vargas
Oscar González
Mauricio Bravo
Sigifredo Vega
Juan Carlos Bedoya
Laila Viera .... Margot
Luís Fernando Bohórquez
Alberto Sornosa
Juan Carlos Arboleda
Eduardo Carreño
Diego Giraldo

International releases

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series finale	Weekly schedule	Timeslot
Turkey	İhanet	Star TV (Turkey)	October, 2008	2009 March	Monday to Friday (Day Change) January, 2009 Saturday Sunday	October, 2008 14:00 (Day Change) January, 2009 Saturday Sunday 13:40
Bulgaria	Предателство	bTV	August 26, 2008	January 30, 2009	Monday to Friday	13:30
Serbia	Izdaja	RTV Pink	January 26, 2009	April 28, 2009	Monday to Friday	14:00
Romania	Tradarea	Acasa TV			Monday to Friday
Philippines	La Traicion (The Betrayal)	ABS-CBN	November 17, 2008	May 8, 2009	Monday to Friday	3:30 PM PST
USA	La Traicion	Telemundo	January 29, 2008	June 27, 2008	Monday to Friday	12:30 PM
Armenia	Դավաճանություն	Shant TV	November 22, 2009	March 18, 2010	Monday to Friday	17:00
Azerbaijan	Xəyanət	Public TV
Spain	La traición	Nova (Spanish TV channel)	November 23, 2009	March 18, 2010	Monday to Friday	17:00