Victorinos
Victorinos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It debuted on June 23, 2009, replacing Sin Senos no hay Paraíso and concluded February 5, 2010.
The telenovela is a remake of the 1991 RTI Colombia weekly series Cuando Quiero Llorar No Lloro, which in turn is based in the homonymous 1970 novel by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva. Ramiro Meneses, who is currently directing the Telemundo telenovela, starred as one of the Victorinos in the 1991 RTI series.
The serial ran from Monday to Friday to run for over 26 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. This show was replaced by the original serial of the show, it had replaced.. Telemundo is currently re-airing the series at 12:30/11:30 PM slot
Plot
The story begins with four men, all born the same day, each named Victorino. The first one, poor and less fortunate, was born into a loving family composed by his mother and stepfather and later on, 2 younger siblings. Not much longer however, his biological father killed the man he knew as his dad and doomed him to a life of crime filled with hate and vengeance.The second one is born into a family of upper class. His father was a criminal and when he turned old enough, he followed into his father's steps.
The third one was born in a middle-class family and appreciated all the good things he had in his life. Since birth his father pushed him to be a general in the army, but could not and ended serving in the police department.
And, the fourth one, was born to a schemer and his much younger buxom wife, he dies of a heart attack and she dies soon after giving birth to Victorino. The baby was later adopted into a middle-class family. His adoptive mother was a tool for a gay couple who wanted to adopt him, but later on stayed and became part of the family.
The day of their birth, a prominent fortune-teller,, predicted their fate: The day when the three Victorino's meet, one of them will die. After revealing this prophecy Ragner suddenly dies of an apparent heart attack. The prophecy is not taken seriously at first until Victorino Gallardo's mother, discovers that there are two, and then later three Victorinos, causing her to find out everything about the prophecy. It's soon discovered that there's not THREE but FOUR Victorinos, as a result Mrs. Gallardo pushes the issue further and discovers that Ragner had an assistant, who we find out later in the novela that his interest in the matter sparks from the death of his son, who was a victim of a prior prophecy, he remembers the Ragner saying that if four people of the same name have the same birth date meet, TWO of them will die.
A turning point in the story occurs when Mora is hired to work for Gallardo, his first job with the "Clan Gallardo" is to kill a famous political figure who is riding in Julian's taxi, Mora succeeds in killing the politician, but was forced to have to kill Julian, so that there's no eyewitness. at the same time Manjarres gets admitted to the police academy, with his first order of action to do away with the "Clan Gallardo".
As time progresses, many truths get realized by each other, alas causing rifts but some alliances toward each other and Claudia gets stuck on some railroad tracks with an oncoming train, Mora stops his pursuit and decides to help save Claudia. Along the way all 4 Victorinos get to know at least 2 of the other Victorinos, whether as schoolmates, cop and inmate as boss and henchman and fugitive and cop.
Manjarres is ready to marry Claudia, but Gallardo angered by Manjarres' pursuit decides to kill him, instead killing Claudia and paralyzing Efrain, as a result Manjarres quits the police force and becomes a vigilante with a sole purpose to kill Gallardo to avenge the death of his future wife. Meanwhile, in addition to the charges Mora is charged with, he's charged with kidnapping Diana, only igniting Gallardo's anger toward Mora, who ever approved of his love to his sister. And, Perez knowing it was Mora who attempted to kill his father, also has a grudge on his former friend.
It is noted to say, that all through the show, there's been occasions where three Victorinos were at the same place, at the same time, and when this would happen, a sudden thunderstorm, with a gust of wind would occur.
Then, comes a day where by fate all four Victorinos are at the same place, when Mora and Gallardo are in jail, Manjarres being at the jail knowing Gallardo is now there and Perez, who was driving a woman to the jail at the same time, the bomb explodes causing a hole in the jail wall allowing the prisoners to escape. Gallardo escapes being chased by Mora, with Manjarres not far behind, Diana who was waiting outside the jail to visit Mora and to tell her brother he loved Mora sees this and calls for Mora, he turns around to see her and is shot in the back four times and is killed by Victorino Gallardo, and the second of the four Victorino's dies as a result of just being down the street of the jail, having stayed around to see the commotion and is shot by one of Victorino Gallardo's main henchmen "El Carnicero" and later died in the hospital. It's here where it's discovered that "the 4th Victorino" isn't named "Victorino" after all, as he was adopted and the adoption agency, misinterpreted his name as being "Victorino" when it was "Victor",. However, the viewer learns that another Victorino, one not seen or known about on the program died the same day as Victorino Mora named "Victorino Jimenez", as a result the prophecy was fulfilled and was not averted, as a result a new prophecy would begin. duMonde knowing that the attempt to avert the prophecy failed, begins to investigate clues on what the new prophecy could be, and discovers in Ragner's old papers, that after a prophecy involving four people is fulfilled, the new prophecy involves three people of the opposite sex falling in love with the two survivors of the last prophecy. duMonde realizes this and tries to avert this, but just three months after the deaths of the Victorinos the new prophecy begins when we become introduced to the Victorinas.
the first Victorina, is a psychologist and clairvoyant, who though is engaged to a pilot named Marcos, falls in love with Victorino Manjarres.
The second Victorina, is a lifeguard at a five-star resort owned by a multi-millionaire, he would later fall in love with her, and have aspirations of promoting her to the position as the head supervisor of all the lifeguards of all his resorts. But, she meets Victorino Gallardo, who's at that resort hiding out after the deaths of the Victorinos, and persuades her to marry then kill Mr. Crosweit, and each split the inheritance half and half. She would later deceive Victorino but decides to go forward with the plan to marry and then kill him for the money.
The third Victorina,, ran away from her hometown with her younger sister, to escape the murderer of her parents, whom wants her or her sister as his wife, she later gets mistaken as a criminal, meets a prisoner, who suggests she should be a boxer, due to her fighting skills. She would coincidentally move in with Lina Maria, Karen and Amparo who had a vacant room available.
At the end, this prophecy and seemingly any other possible prophecy becomes averted by the success of a ritual performed by Phillip duMonde, Martina Manjarres and Victorina Salinas, where they successfully follow the scrolled instruction, and essentially turned away death. As a result, none of the Victorinas were killed for falling in love with a Victorino.
The 2nd Victorino is killed by being shot four times in the torso by the 3rd Victorino,whom that same day was reinstated into the police, but, since this death was not as a result of a Victorina falling in love, this death does not count as a result of the prophecy. Manjarres then updates us a month after the killing.
Victorina Fernandez does not succeed with the attempt on Mr. Crosweit's life and her and Marcos get arrested by the police, Victorina for the assassination attempt on Mr. Crosweit, and Marcos for attempting to help her leave the country.
The rest of the events, take place, months later as Victorina Cruz, in a sense coming full circle, meets the woman she met in the jail for the country's championship and defeats her and then later, wins the world title.
Victorina Salinas marries Victorino Manjarres on their 25th birthday, and Victorina ends up getting pregnant, expecting a boy.
And, in the end Victorino Manjarres gets promoted for his work with the destruction of Victorino Gallardo and his "Clan Gallardo" and is the new captain, with the possibility of being promoted to his ultimate goal, as stated in the early episodes of the serial, and fulfilling his father's dream of being a general.
Ratings
Telemundo set a ratings record for the debut of its new telenovela, Victorinos. Based on final Nielsen ratings, the show, an original Telemundo production, which aired from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., averaged 995,000 adult 18-49 viewers, making it the Spanish-language net’s highest-rated original 10 p.m. premiere in network history.Cast
Main Cast In Order of Appearance:| Actor/actress | Character | Known as |
| Mauricio Ochmann | Victorino Mora | Hitman who takes contracts to protect the safety of his family; in love with Diana Gallardo; dies after being shot four times by Victorino Gallardo |
| Arap Bethke | Victorino Gallardo | Main villain, Drug dealer brother of Diana Gallardo, killed by Victorino Manjarres. |
| Roberto Manrique | Victorino Manjarres | Police mint love with Victorina Salinas,has a baby With her |
| Silvia de Dios | Angela Riquelme de Gallardo | Mother of Victorino Gallardo |
| Juan Carlos Salazar | Alejandro Gallardo | Father of Victorino Gallardo |
| Noelle Schönwald | Martina de Manjarrés | Mother of Victorino Manjarrés |
| Gustavo Angarita Jr. | Efraín Manjarrés | Father of Victorino Manjarrés - Paralized X Sgt. Victorino Manjarrés mentor and role model obsessed with the military way of life teaches his son from a very young age everything he knows about the military |
| Claudia Liliana González | Lina María Céspedes | Mother of Victorino Mora |
| Juanita Humar | Amparo | Aunt of Victorino Mora |
| Norma Nivia | Cristina | Lover of Alejandro Gallardo |
| Karina Cruz | Claudia Garcia | Girlfriend of Victorino Manjarres - Killed by Victorino Gallardo |
| Linda Baldrich | Karen Hernández | Sister of Victorino Mora |
| Julián Farietta | Camilo Hernández | Brother of Victorino Mora |
| Teresa Gutiérrez | Aurora | Grandmother of Victorino Gallardo |
| Ricardo Gomez Escobar | Georgie | Virtual Gigolo - Dates Aurora Gallardo to steal from her. Escobar played Victorino Perdomo in the 1991 RTI series |
| Isabel Cristina Estrada | Gloria Perez | Adoptive mother of Victorino Pérez - Julian Pérez's wife |
| Francisco Bolívar | Victorino Pérez | Dies in the hospital after fatal gunshots to the chest; shot by El Carnicero |
| Sebastián Boscán | Francisco/Franchesca Pérez | Adoptive parent of Victorino Pérez |
| Mijail Mulkay | Julian Pérez | Adoptive father of Victorino Pérez |
| Lucho Velasco | Victor Hugo Mora | Father of Victorino Mora - Killed by Victorino Mora |
| Ximena Duque | Diana Gallardo | Sister of Victorino Gallardo - In love with Victorino Mora |
| Jessica Sanjuán | Julieta Manjarrés | Sister of Victorino Manjarrés |
| Maria Margarita Giraldo | Aurora | Grandmother of Victorino Gallardo |
| Gary Forero | Rafael | Stepfather of Victorino Mora - Brother of Amparo; in love with Lina María; killed by Victor Hugo |
| Julio Cesar Mora | .... | father of Victorino Pérez |
| Ilja Rosendahl | .... | Boxing Trainer |
| Pedro Perez | Victorino Gallardo | Teenage Victorino |
| Carolina Sepulveda | Victorina Sallinas | Psychologist/Clairvoyant - In love with Victorino Manjarrez |
| Sara Corrales | Victorina Fernandez | Lifeguard - Arrested; in love with Victorino Gallardo |
| Jacqueline Marquez | Victorina Cruz | Aspiring Boxer |
| Eileen Abad | Lucía | |
| Evelyn Santos | Carolina | |
| Ramiro Meneses | Tanatos | Organizer of clandestine fights - Meneses played Victorino Ramirez in the 1991 RTI series |
| Oscar Borda | Pantera | Former boxer - Coach of Victorina Salinas; bullied constantly by Tanatos |
| Edgardo Roman | Cervantes | Former boxer and "Tanatos" bully - Roman played Romulo Perdomo in the 1991 RTI series |
| Sasha Molina | ||
| Freddy Ordoñez | Antonio Robayo | Killed when struck by a car while picking up the money he stole from Gallardo |
| Gustavo Corredor | Miguel Angel Crosweit | Hotel billionaire - Falls in love with Victorina Fernández; almost killed by Victorino Gallardo |
| David Guerrero | Oscar | Assistant and chauffeur of Mr. Crosweit - Murdered by Victorino Gallardo after finding out Victorina Fernández's plans; Guerrero played Victorino Umaña in the 1991 RTI series Juliet |