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Kassandra (1992)

Kassandra poster
Genre
telenovela, drama television series, thriller television series
Country
Venezuela
Length
5 seasons, 150 episodes
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 111 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman grows up in a circus with Romani people, unaware that she is the granddaughter of a wealthy landowner. She falls in love with her unknowing stepson, leading to conflict and secrets.

romanticdramaticmelodramaticsuspensefulemotionalintriguingsoapy

What happens

Kassandra is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV). It is a remake of the 1973 telenovela Peregrina created and also written by Fiallo. The story revolves around a young woman, Kassandra who grows up in a traveling circus among Romani people. She thinks she is one of them, not knowing that she is in fact the granddaughter of a rich landowner whose stepson she falls desperately in love with. The series has 150 episodes that were first broadcast between 8 October 1992 and 11 May 1993 on RCTV, and it achieved a worldwide success. It was extremely successful in its later airings, especially in the United States, Romania, Greece, Italy, Spain, Russia, Mongolia, Philippines, former Eastern Bloc nations, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, as well as the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. Coraima Torres, Osvaldo Ríos, and Henry Soto starred as protagonists, with Nury Flores, Alexander Milic, Loly Sánchez, Erika Madina, and also Osvaldo Ríos as the antagonists. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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