El Zorro, la espada y la rosa (The Sword and the Rose) is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. It was produced by Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and RTI Colombia.
Synopsis:
The hero, Don Diego de la Vega, adopts the secret identity of Zorro. Diego is a mestizo born in the 1790s to a white father, Don Alejandro de la 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 ranch. 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.
Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada, a beautiful young widow, arrives in California with her sister Mariángel Sánchez de Moncada and her father, Fernando Sánchez de Moncada, the newly appointed governor - and villainous dictator - of Los Angeles, and Zorro falls in love with her.
The story focuses on mysteries concerning Esmeralda's long-lost mother and the man whose atrocities changed Diego's life forever. Their resolution threatens to shake the Spanish Empire.
Cast:
Christian Meier - Diego de la Vega /El Zorro
Marlene Favela - Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada
Arturo Peniche - Fernando Sánchez de Moncada
Osvaldo Ríos - Don Alejandro de la Vega
Erick Elías - Renzo
Héctor Suárez Gomís - Capitán Aníbal Pizarro
Andrea López - Mariángel Sánchez de Moncada
Harry Geithner - Comandante Ricardo Montero de Ávila
Jorge Cao - Padre Tomás Villarte
Natasha Klauss - Sor Ana Camila Suplicios
César Mora - Sargento Demetrio López García
Lully Bosa - Almudena Sánchez de Moncada
Andrea Montenegro - María Pía de la Vega
Ricardo González - Bernardo
Adriana Campos - Yumalay / Guadalupe and Toypurnia / Regina
Raúl Gutiérrez - Olmos Berroterran de la Guardia
Carmen Marina Torres - Dolores
Ana Bolena Meza - Sara Kali / Mercedes Mayorga de Aragon
Margarita Giraldo - Azucena
Germán Rojas - Jonás
Natalia Bedoya - Laisha
Orlando Valenzuela - Miguel
Luigi Aycardi - Tobias del Valle y Campos
Marilyn Patiño - Catalina Quintana
Ivelín Giro - María Luísa Burgos de Castilla
Teresa Gutiérrez - La Marquesa Carmen Santillana de la Roquette
Didier van der Hove - Santiago Michelena
Valentina Acosta - Selenia
Victor Rodríguez - Agapito
Julián Álvarez - Cabo Aguirre
Luis Mesa - Duque Jacobo Almagro de Castellón
José Omar Murillo - Kamba
Javier Delguidice - Alfonso Diaz de Vergara
El Francés - Tornado
