Cristal (TV series)

Cristal (1985–1986) is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Radio Caracas Televisión. This telenovela lasted 246 episodes, and it achieved a significant amount of success inside and outside Venezuela, it was extremely successful in its airing in Spain (where each advertisement that was seen during the transmission of Cristal cost more than seven million pesetas) and Italy. It was distributed internationally by Coral International.^[1] Cristal has been rebroadcast more than seven times in Venezuela. Cristal has several adaptations, including a 2006 Brazilian version of the same name distributed by SBT, and two Mexican remakes, El privilegio de amar in 1998, and Triunfo del amor in 2010, both distributed by Televisa.

Cristal
Genre	Telenovela Romance Drama
Created by	Delia Fiallo
Written by	Delia Fiallo Ana M. Escámez Vivel Nouel Zaret Romero
Directed by	Renato Gutiérrez Daniel Farías Tito Rojas
Starring	Lupita Ferrer Jeannette Rodríguez Carlos Mata Raul Amundaray
Opening theme	Mi Vida Eres Tu performed by Rudy La Scala
Ending theme	Volvamos A Vivir performed by Rudy La Scala
Country of origin	Venezuela
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	246
Production
Executive producer	Jorge Gherardi
Producer	Oman Pin
Production location	Caracas
Production company	RCTV
Original release
Network	RCTV
Release	August 5, 1985 (1985-08-05) – July 12, 1986 (1986-07-12)
Related
El privilegio de amar (1998) Cristal (2006) Triunfo del amor (2010) Magkaribal (2010) Pusong Ligaw (2017)

Lupita Ferrer, Jeannette Rodríguez and Carlos Mata starred as the main protagonists^[2] with Marita Capote, Jorge Palacios and Zoe Ducós as the antagonists.^[3]

Synopsis

Victoria Ascano (Lupita Ferrer), the beautiful and successful owner of the fashion house "Casa Victoria", decides to search for the baby she abandoned years before. At the same time, Cristina (Jeannette Rodríguez), Victoria's daughter leaves the orphanage where she was raised and moves into an apartment with two other girls, Inocencia (Mariela Alcala) and Zoraida (Lourdes Valera), ready to pursue her dream of becoming a model. Cristina is unknowingly hired by Victoria, and she was on her way to becoming a successful model when Victoria discovers that Cristina and Luis Alfredo (Carlos Mata), her stepson, were having an affair. Victoria fires Cristina and Luis Alfredo marries Marion (Marita Capote), his old girlfriend, because she claims to be carrying his child. Shortly after being abandoned by Luis Alfredo and fired by Victoria, Cristina discovers that she, too, is pregnant.^[4]

Cast

• Lupita Ferrer as Victoria Ascanio
• Jeannette Rodríguez as Cristina Expósito, a.k.a. Cristal^[5]
• Carlos Mata as Luis Alfredo Ascanio
• Raul Amundaray as Alejandro Ascanio
• Marita Capote as Marion Bellorin
• Mariela Alcala as Inocencia
• Lourdes Valera as Zoraida, a.k.a. Cerebrito
• Henry Zakka as Adán
• Zoe Ducós as Luisa
• Lino Ferrer as Piero
• Ileana Jacket as Bertha Girot
• Sonya Smith as Maggie
• Roberto Moll as Darío
• Jorge Palacios as Gonzalo Valladares
• Humberto Garcia as Padre Ángel de Jesús
• Gigi Zanchetta as Eliana Ascanio
• Cecilia Villarreal as Vivian Marshall
• Marlene Maseda as Marlene

Broadcasters

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series finale	Weekly schedule	Timeslot
Venezuela	Cristal	Radio Caracas Televisión	1985	1986	Monday to Saturday	10:00 pm
Spain	Cristal	Televisión Española	1989[6]	1990[7]
Poland	Cristal	TVP3	July 25, 1994	March 17, 1995	Monday to Friday	7:00 pm
Argentina	Cristal	Teleonce (today Telefe)	March 2, 1987	September 5, 1987	Monday to Friday	2:15 pm
Paraguay	Cristal	Canal 9 Cerro Corá (today SNT)	February 2, 1987	August 3, 1987	Monday to Friday	7:00 pm

See also

• List of famous telenovelas