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Synopsis
It is the end of World War II. The world celebrates the Nuremberg trials and mourns the death of Manolete. In Argentina, Evita becomes queen of Los Descamisados and in Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán demonstrates his convening power in La marcha de las Antorchas.
In this scenario, a service employee knocks on stately homes and the doors of the Courts in Bogotá, seeking justice. She points to Buenaventura Nepomuceno Matallana, a wealthy lawyer, as the person responsible for the disappearance of her employer, nobody believes her. Merceditas Ramos, the employee, places the scant evidence of her in the hands of the most famous journalist of the time, Félix González Robledo, famous for his police chronicles.
González Robledo joins forces with a seasoned investigator, Benito Capote, and together they begin to examine the actions of the millionaire lawyer Matallana. Very soon Merceditas and her investigators are buried by the evidence but not of a murder, not two, not ten, there are dozens of missing. They are not facing an ordinary murderer but a real murderer.
On behalf of the trio of investigators, the prestigious Matallana goes to jail with his name becoming the alias: "Doctor Mata". The man swears revenge against Merceditas and the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán gives him the opportunity. The Bogotazo opens the doors of all the prisons and Dr. Mata is already among the burned streets looking for Merceditas.
Technical File
Direction: Sergio Cabrera
Scripts: Nubia Barreto - Verner Duarte
Executive Producer: Myriam Gómez
Genre: Drama.
Duration: 58 x 60”
Production Year: 2012
Produced by: RCN Studios.
Characters
Matallana
Matallana
Interpreted by: Enrique Carriazo
When Mercedes Ramos accuses him for the disappearance of Alfredo Ferro, Buenaventura Nepomuceno Matallana is an untouchable patriarch of Bogota who divides his time as administrator of the assets of his friends and the representation of his clients in the courts. His personal confessor is the bishop himself. The revelations about his crimes and his condition as a false lawyer cause a real commotion in Bogotá in 1948.
Mercedes Ramos
Mercedes Ramos
Interpreted by: Yuri Vargas
No one would have noticed her if she had not been walking on the arm of wealthy businessman Alfredo Ferro Villegas, who was three times her age and left behind his sad marriage to be with her. She was able to ignore the accusations and cling to the affection she felt for Alfredo. The disappearance of "her old man" will force her to pawn her life to prove that the prestigious lawyer Matallana is responsible.
Benito Capote
Benito Capote
Interpretado por: Nikolás Rincón
Rookie detective who receives the first complaint for the disappearance of Alfredo Ferro, without knowing that this case will put his deepest convictions to the test, sharpen his character and turn his life upside down. He still doesn't know how much he will come to love Mercedes, whom he will end up accompanying in the task of revealing the truth about Ferro's disappearance. Capote does not intuit that the strength of that love will make him a detective.
Félix Robledo
Félix Robledo
Interpreted by: Luis Fernando Hoyos
He is the police chronicler par excellence. His fame as a keen investigator does not correspond to his meager income as a journalist in the service of El Liberal. He is always in search of clues and details that will help him to clarify the abundant police facts that Bogotá of the 1940's provides. When he meets Mercedes Ramos and realizes the difficult undertaking he is about to undertake, he lends his ears and his pen to an investigation that will uncover a modus operandi.
Cecilia Arias
Cecilia Arias
Played by: Geraldine Zivic
Matallana's great love. The only person in the world who actually knows about his delinquent ways. They both know each other as crooks and cheats since the days when he was a beardless boy and she was a beautiful, ambitious and wayward country girl. Together they learned the night and hunger, bad drinks and mad love. Twenty years later they meet again, but now La Mona would like to scare Matallana out of her life.
Lucia Naranjo
Lucia Naranjo
Interpreted by: Sandra Hernandez
Bad spelling and good curves are her best offer for the position of Dr. Matallana's secretary. Although she has all the qualities to be a fiery lover, she would not agree to the dirty games of an older man. Mata cannot resist her youth and her seduction strategies and makes her his wife. With Lucia's entry into his family, the karma of the in-laws will also arrive, which will be a litmus test for Dr. Mata's little patience.