Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa
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| Genre | Telenovela |
| Created by | Humberto "Kiko" Olivieri |
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| Opening theme | "Amor gitano" by Alejandro Fernández and Beyoncé Knowles |
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| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes |
112 122 (International Version) |
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| Producer(s) | Marlon Quintero |
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| Editor(s) | Alba Merchan Hamann |
| Production company(s) | Sony Pictures Television International RTI Colombia Zorro Productions, inc. |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television International |
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| Original release | February 12 – July 23, 2007 |
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| Related shows | Zorro (1957) |
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El Zorro, la espada y la rosa (The Sword and the Rose) is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. Telemundo aired it from February 12 to July 23, 2007. This limited-run serial shows the masked crusader as a hero torn between his fight for justice and his love for a beautiful woman. Telemundo president Don Browne called this show "without doubt the best production offered on Hispanic television in the United States today."
This series was produced by Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and RTI Colombia. This series was filmed in Colombia.
It was the network's most successful series of 2007 and its biggest seller in international syndication.Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has asked Telemundo to produce a sequel.
The melodrama loosely follows the retcon of Zorro from the 2005 novel by Isabel Allende, yet also uses the major characters from the 1950s Disney series. It shows a fantastic, ahistorical version of colonial Los Angeles full of romance, royal intrigue, and witchcraft, even polygamy. The city is populated with gypsies, slaves, clerics, cannibals, conspirators, rebellious Indians and Amazon warriors, along with Spanish settlers, soldiers, pirates and mestizo peasants.
The hero, Don Diego Dela 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 Dela Vega, and his wife, a Native American warrior named Toypurnia, who was given the name Regina when she married Alejandro.
Diego learned his acrobatics and fencing skills in Spain, under the tutelage of a great swordmaster. Remembering the injustices he saw as a child, he returned to his family's California hacienda. Now he lives as both a nobleman and a vigilante, fighting imperialist oppression. He is backed by the brotherhood of Zorro, a secret society called the Knights of the Broken Thorn.
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