Kassandra | |
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Genre | Telenovela Romance Drama |
Created by | Delia Fiallo |
Written by | Delia Fiallo |
Directed by | Grazio D'Angelo Olegario Barrera |
Starring | Coraima Torres Osvaldo Ríos Henry Soto |
Theme music composer | Jose Antonio Bordell |
Opening theme | Kassandra by Jose Antonio Bordell |
Country of origin | Venezuela |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of episodes | 150 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Omar Pin Alberto Giarocco |
Producer | Hernando Faria |
Production locations | Mucuchíes, Mérida |
Running time | 1992–1993 |
Production company | RCTV |
Original release | |
Network | RCTV |
Release | October 8, 1992 May 11, 1993 | –
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Kassandra is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Delia Fiallo and produced by RCTV.[1] The story revolves around a young woman, Kassandra who grows up in a traveling circus among many Romani people. She thinks she is connected to the ethnic subgroup not knowing that she is in fact the granddaughter of a rich landowner whose stepson she falls desperately in love with. This love culminates in everyone around Kassandra discovering hidden secrets and her greatly suffering because of it.
Kassandra lasted 150 episodes between October 1992 and May 1993, and it achieved a worldwide amount of success outside Venezuela.[2] It was extremely successful in its later airings, especially in United States, Romania, Greece, Italy, Russia, former Eastern Bloc nations, former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, as well as the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. In 2008, the show was also remade in Russia as Принцесса цирка (Princess of the Circus).
Coraima Torres, Osvaldo Ríos & Henry Soto starred as protagonists [3] with Nury Flores, Alexander Milic, Loly Sánchez, Erika Madina and also Osvaldo Ríos as the antagonists.[4]