Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa
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Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa
Genre: Action-adventure
Creator(s): Johnston McCulley
Developer(s): Telemundo-RTI Colombia with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI)
Starring
-Christian Meier
-Marlene Favela
Country of origin: Colombia
Flag of United States United States
Language(s): Spanish
No. of episodes : 120
Production
Executive producer(s) Patricio Wills
Hugo Leon Ferrer
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Telemundo
Picture format Color
Original run February 12, 2007 – July 27, 2007
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa (The Sword and the Rose) is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. It premiered February 12, 2007 on Telemundo. This limited-run serial is expected to run for 120 hours on weekdays over 23 weeks. The masked crusader shows the hero torn between his fight for justice and his love for a beautiful woman.
The melodrama loosely follows the retcon of Zorro from the 2005 novel by Isabel Allende, yet also uses the major characters from the 1950s series. The hero, Don Diego de la Vega, adopts the secret identity of Zorro, the masked avenger. Instead of being a Spaniard, however, Diego is now a mestizo born in the 1790s to a white father, Don Alejandro de la Vega, and his wife, a Native American warrior.
Diego learned his acrobatics and fencing skills in Barcelona, under the tutelage of a great swordmaster. Remembering the injustices he saw as a child, he returned to California. Now he lives as both a nobleman and a vigilante, fighting imperialist oppression.
Since this is a telenovela, much of the drama focuses on romantic melodrama and family intrigue. Here, Zorro falls in love with a beautiful young widow, Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada. She arrives in California with her father, Fernando Sánchez de Moncada, the newly appointed governor -- and villainous dictator -- of Los Angeles.
The hero must challenge a host of evildoers, branding them with the distinctive Zorro “Z” – made from three swift scratches. The story arc focuses on mysteries concerning Esmeralda's long-lost mother and the man whose atrocities changed Diego's life forever. From Telemundo's promotional copy:
At heart, Zorro is not different from other men in his need to love and to be loved, his desire to fall in love and form a family, and his ambition to find the ideal woman. Will he obtain them?"[1]