Café, con aroma de mujer | |
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Created by | Fernando Gaitán |
Directed by | Pepe Sánchez |
Starring |
Margarita Rosa de Francisco Guy Ecker Alejandra Borrero Silva de Dios Constanza Duque |
Opening theme | Gaviota by Margarita Rosa de Francisco |
Country of origin | Colombia |
Original language(s) | Spanish |
No. of episodes | 169 |
Production | |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Production company(s) | RCN Televisión |
Release | |
Picture format | 480i SDTV |
Original release | November 30, 1994 – 1995 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | La potra zaina |
Followed by | Eternamente Manuela |
Café, con aroma de mujer ("Coffee, with the scent of a woman") is a 1994 Colombian telenovela, produced by then programming company RCN TV on state-owned Canal A. It was written and created by Fernando Gaitán. It was broadcast in several countries throughout Latin America, North America and Europe.
Teresa Suárez (Margarita Rosa de Francisco), nicknamed "Gaviota" (Spanish for "Gull"), and her mother Carmenza Suárez, work as harvesters and throughout the year they travel to different farmlands across Colombia searching for work. Each October, just prior to the harvest period in the coffee axis, they travel to the hacienda Casablanca in Filandia whose owner, powerful coffee businessman Octavio Vallejo, secures employment for them. One October, Vallejo dies and his family, spread over the world, heads back to Casablanca to attend the funeral. Once back in the hacienda after several years in London, his grandson Sebastián Vallejo (Guy Ecker) meets Gaviota and only with her he is eventually able to overcome his fear of women.
After a few encounters, Sebastián and Gaviota begin a short, but passionate affair that becomes for both of them their first true romantic experience. They keep their romance a secret, specially from his aristocratic family, but eventually he must leave back for London after his grandfather's funeral to finish his college studies. The pair agree to reunite in Casablanca exactly the same date the following year, once he graduates, to finally marry. Shortly after Sebastián's departure, Gaviota finds out she is pregnant. Finding no means to get in contact with him, distrusting his family and with no one else to turn to, she decides to travel to Europe herself to search for him, having been deceived by a network of human trafficking who prey on her ingenuity by offering her a job as a model but actually hoping to exploit her as a prostitute in Paris.