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José Ignacio Cabrujas

José Ignacio Cabrujas

Writing

Biography

José Ignacio Cabrujas Lofiego (July 17, 1937 – October 21, 1995 in Porlamar, Margarita Island) was a Venezuelan playwright, theater director, chronicler, soap opera writer, drama librettist, screenplay writer, radio moderator, humanist and political campaigns designer. He is considered one of the founders and innovators of the modern telenovela genre in Latin America, and is called the "Maestro de las Telenovelas."

Known For

Emperatriz
8.2

Emperatriz is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco for Azteca. It stars Gabriela Spanic as the title character, while Bernie Paz as the male lead. Other casts include Sergio de Bustamante, Julieta Egurrola, Adriana Louvier, Marimar Vega, Miriam Higareda, Alberto Guerra, Rafael Sanchez Navarro and Carmen Delgado. Omar Fierro made special appearance in the first five episodes, and later returns in the final part of the series.[1] The filming process took place between 17 March 2011 - 30 September 2011. The series premiered on 5 April 2011, 19 days after filming the first scene, at 8:30pm, occupying Prófugas del Destino's slot, and ended on 8 November 2011. Emperatriz is also known as most selling telenovela of 2011.

Emperatriz

2011
The Return
7.7

La Patrona is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Mexican Argos Comunicación. The telenovela is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Dueña, written by José Ignacio Cabrujas. The name reflects a local term or slang in Mexico to address a person recognized as the main boss. However, the title is also a reflection of both the protagonist and the antagonist struggle to conquer power, authority and respect in a labor field traditionally deemed to be a man's job.

The Return

2013
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7.0

Toda una dama is a successful Venezuelan telenovela produced and broadcast on RCTV International in 2007. The telenovela is a remake of Señora, an original story written by renowned telenovela author José Ignacio Cabrujas. This new verison was adapred by Iris Dubs and starred Christina Dieckmann and Ricardo Álamo as the main protagonists with Nohely Arteaga starred as the main antagonist.

Toda una dama

2007
Señora
8.0

Señora is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and broadcast on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas, Ibsen Martínez, Cristina Policastro, and Eliseo Morales and directed by Luis Alberto Lamata and Aura Guevara. The series lasted 229 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.

Señora

1988
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6.0

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Géminis, venganza de amor

2002
La Dama de Rosa
6.0

La Dama de Rosa is a successful Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. Jeannette Rodríguez and Carlos Mata starred as the main protagonists. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas and directed by Luis Manzo and Tito Rojas. This telenovela lasted 144 episodes and it achieved a significant amount of success inside and outside Venezuela. It was distributed internationally by RCTV International. La Dama de Rosa was remade by RCTV in 1997 under the name "Cambio de Piel".

La Dama de Rosa

1986
Cambio de Piel
8.0

Cambio de Piel is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Ignacio Cabrujas and Perla Farias and directed by Tony Rodrígues. This telenovela lasted 110 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International. It is a remake of RCTV's 1986 telenovela, La Dama de Rosa.

Cambio de Piel

1997
Un nuevo amor
8.0

Un nuevo amor was a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco and broadcast by TV Azteca in 2003. It starred antagonistically by Karen Sentíes, as a leading couple had Cecilia Ponce, Sergio Basañez and Vanessa Acosta (it should be noted that Cecilia Ponce left the telenovela halfway through history and was replaced by Vanessa Acosta).

Un nuevo amor

2003
Coup at Daybreak
6.8

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.

Coup at Daybreak

1998
Araya
7.2

"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

Araya

1959
The Burning of Judas
6.4

Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.

The Burning of Judas

1974
The Day You Love Me
7.0

Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and secrets are revealed.

The Day You Love Me

1986
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9.0

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La señora de Cárdenas

2003
Carmen
5.5

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.

Carmen

1978
Una noche oriental
10.0

Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.

Una noche oriental

1986
Aventurera
7.0

President Romulo Betancourt's government has just began, an attack is brewing on his life. Braulio an unemployed actor, comes to work in professional wrestling, and falls deeply for Rosario, lover of Buffalo, director of the wrestling group, Ronco, who once is saved by Braulio in a clash with police, offers this winning good money for doing an "important work".

Aventurera

1988
El asesinato de Delgado Chalbaud
N/A

In the turbulent Venezuela of the 1950s, ambition and betrayal intertwine in a drama that culminates in a tragic outcome. Rafael Simón Urbina, a man marked by resentment and frustration, hatches a plan to eliminate Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (Raúl Amundaray), the leader of the military junta that rules the country. Driven by a deep hatred for the regime and an unquenchable thirst for power, Urbina orchestrates a daring kidnapping that culminates in a brutal murder.

El asesinato de Delgado Chalbaud

1979
The Smoking Fish
6.9

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.

The Smoking Fish

1977
Los días duros
10.0

Venezuelan feature film by Julio César Mármol.

Los días duros

1970
The Scandal
5.0

Journalist exposé about how power and money ultimately corrupt the innocent.

The Scandal

1987