La traición

La Traición
Title card
Created by	José Fernando Pérez
Developed by	Telemundo RTI Colombia
Directed by	Mauricio Cruz Agustin Restrepo Santiago Vargas
Starring	Mario Cimarro Danna Garcia
Theme music composer	Nicolas Uribe Oliver Camargo José Carlos Maria
Opening theme	"Me frena una razon" Salvatore Casandro Paola Vargas
Country of origin	Colombia United States
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	106
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hugo León Ferrer
Producer(s)	Andrés Santamaría
Editor(s)	Alba Merchan Hamann
Camera setup	Multi camera
Running time	42-45 minutes
Release
Original network	Telemundo
Picture format	SDTV, 480i
Original release	January 29, 2008 - June 27, 2008
Chronology
Preceded by	Madre Luna
Followed by	El Juramento

La Traición (Betrayed) is a Colombian-American telenovela co-produced by United States-based Telemundo and RTI Colombia. Telemundo debuted this serial on January 29, 2008, replacing Madre Luna. This show is also known as Betrayed.

Traición is based on the Colombian novel El Caballero de Rauzán, written in 1887 by Felipe Pérez. RTI Colombia made another adaptation of the story in 2000, titled Rauzán. As with most of its soap operas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Filming in Bogotá, Colombia, began in late October, 2007.

BTV started to air this telenovela on August 26, 2008 in Bulgaria. RTV Pink started to air this telenovela on January 26, 2009 in Serbia. TV Puls will start to air this novela on August 31, 2009 in Poland.

Story

This romantic saga features Hugo de Medina, a handsome, mysterious swordsman, with a reputation as a womanizer. His life crashes around him when he finds he suffers from catalepsy, an incurable condition marked by loss of voluntary motion. The same disease felled his father years before.

This dashing young man meets Soledad de Obregon, a gorgeous, refined girl and the two are bound together by sudden passion, though matters are complicated by Hugo's desire to hide his infirmity.

As the adoring couple prepares to marry, tragedy strikes again. Hugo's sinister brother, Alcides, who has always been in love with Soledad, betrays him and steals his betrothed. The rest of the telenovela deals with first Hugo's quest for vengeance and then his attempts to regain the trust and love of Soledad.

Production notes

This telenovela was originally announced with Mario Cimarro, Sandra Echeverría and Gabriel Porras as stars. Danna Garcia replaced Echeverría and Salvador del Solar replaced Porras, who took the male lead in Madre Luna. Telemundo began airing ads promoting this show in September, before filming began. It apparently shortened the series from the original plan of 130 to 106 episodes.

Telemundo also took a shot at rival network Univision by having Michelle Vieth appear in first-run episodes of this show, while Univision aired Al Diablo con los Guapos from 2007. This highlights that the competition rebroadcasts serials that already aired in Mexico several months ago, while Telemundo usually airs original programming. Michelle Vieth is thus one of the few soap performers to appear on competing US networks at the same time.

Cast

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International releases

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series finale	Weekly schedule	Timeslot
Bulgaria	Предателство	bTV	August 26, 2008	January 30, 2009	Monday to Friday	13:30
Serbia	Izdaja	RTV Pink	January 26, 2009	April 28, 2009	Monday to Friday	14:00
Romania	Tradarea	Acasa TV			Monday to Friday
Philippines	La Traicion (The Betrayal)	ABS-CBN	November 17, 2008	May 8, 2009	Monday to Friday
Armenia	Դավաճանություն	Shant TV

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Telenovela World (bilingual)
• Telemundo teaser trailer (Spanish with English subtitles)
• Telenovela La Traición Tribute Site (in Spanish)