Casi Ángeles (English: Almost Angels) is an Argentine teen telenovela by Cris Morena which was aired by Telefe. Its first broadcast was on 21 March 2007 and it ended on 29 November 2010, with a total of 579 episodes divided over four seasons. A star-studded soap-opera, Casi Ángeles stars Nicolás Vázquez, Emilia Attias, Mariano Torre and Teen Angels (Juan Pedro Lanzani, Mariana Espósito, Gastón Dalmau, Nicolás Riera, María Eugenia Suárez). Casi Ángeles is considered one of the most successful telenovelas in Argentinian television history. Also due to the success of the show, the pop band Teen Angels emerged, composed of Juan Pedro Lanzani, Mariana Espósito, Gastón Dalmau, Nicolás Riera, María Eugenia Suárez.
Production The series was mainly filmed in Pampa Studios, located in Buenos Aires, although also some takes were shot in the street. During the end of 2008 the cast and production went on to film the first 5 episodes of the third season on location, to be more specific, in different points in the provinces of Mendoza and San Juan. Also, to record the last episodes of the same season, the team went to San Pedro, a town in Buenos Aires. Towards the end of the last season, the actors Peter Lanzani, Pablo Martínez and Rocío Igarzábal, recorded in the ruins of Villa Epecuén.
Plot Casi Ángeles is the story of a group of homeless and/ or orphaned children and teenagers who are exploited and forced to steal for Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero (Alejo García Pintos) and Justina Merarda García (Julia Calvo). However, everything changes when Cielo Mágico (Emilia Attias), acrobat and dancer, and Dr. Nicolás Bauer (Nicolás Vázquez), an archaeologist, enter the kids' lives. Cielo, through her music, her love and her kindness, and Nicolás, with his fatherly nature and dreams, give the children the chance to believe in joy again. They both keep important secrets that, when discovered, will change everyone's lives forever. This is a story packed with magic, love, music, songs, dances and competitions. Nonetheless, there is a mystery within the house and their relations, and it involves every single one of them. Their individual and group stories have to do with the secrets protected by the hidden portal in the clock inside the Inchaustis' mansion and the special connection that everyone has with it and each other. As a magic object, this portal has chosen each and every one of the Casi Ángeles with the utmost care, and everyone thus has a mission. Discovering this mission will be the meaning of this action-packed adventure.
Seasons Season 1; Island Eudamón (2007) The story begins when Cielo Mágico (Emilia Attías) a circus acrobat, and Nicolás Bauer (Nicolás Vázquez), an archaeologist obsessed with finding the Island of Eudamón, arrive in the lives of a group of orphaned children exploited by the evil Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero (Alejo García Pintos) and his housekeeper Justina (Julia Calvo). Cielo and Nico will help and rescue these children, while discovering the dark secrets hidden in the Inchausti Mansion, linked to Cielo's past and Eudamón. In that mansion, Bartolomé serves as director of the BB Foundation, which he uses as a front for his fearsome plans, which are threatened by the appearance of the heirs, Ángeles and Luz Inchausti (Florencia Cagnasso).
Season 2; The Man of the Thousand Faces (2008) In the second season, the kids, not being subdued by Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero any longer, start having a normal life, in the renamed : Magical Home, now directed by Nico (Nicolás Vázquez) and Cielo/Ángeles (Emilia Attias); who at first is missing after being absorbed by the magic portal (clock) inside the mansion. However, new kids come to the house/ foundation, and the Corporación Cruz [CC] appears, led by Juan Cruz (Mariano Torre), the main villain of this season and Thiago's biological father. JC is a fallen angel, a shadow, obsessed with returning to Eudamón, and with Cielo, who managed, just like him, to reach that "other level". Juan Cruz will try to emotionally break everyone who lives in the mansion, and in order to achieve his goal, will try in many ways to prevent Cielo from having her and Nico's daughter: Paz.
Season 3; The Little Prince (2009) The third season incorporates themes such as lateral thinking and ecology, which were added to and reinforced ideas implemented in previous seasons such as freedom of expression and social awareness. This season, the kids and Justina reappear in different places, 22 years in the future, after opening the book of the 7 padlocks on the fountain in front of the Mansion. From there, with the help of their "acquired nieces": Paz (Emilia Attias) and Hope (Jimena Barón), Nico's daughters, and the help of Camilo Estrella (Mariano Torre); they will discover their mission, that turns out to be "Save Paz" (which also means : "Save the peace [in the world]") to return home. Paz is a restless, disobedient girl, with a maternal, liberal and protective spirit, who falls in love with Camilo Estrella, the new director of the Mandalay Institute. In this season, Juan Cruz, unable to prevent the birth of Paz, will try to kill her 22 years later, in order to return to Eudamón. To all this are also added the confrontation against the dictatorial government under the command of the Chief of Ministers (Mercedes Funes), and each of the characters personal problemas and developments.
Season 4; The Resistance (2010) Casi Ángeles: "La Resistencia", is the consequence of having saved Paz (Emilia Attias). Having fulfilled that mission meant succumbing to a great temporal paradox, where the Head of Ministers (Mercedes Funes), who turned out to be Luz Inchausti, launched "The Little Prince" protocol. From there, the kids were unable to return to their time and they scattered. Several were captured by the Government Corporation, reset and taken to what was once the Mandalay, now transformed completely by Luz and called NE Institute (NE, is the acronym for New Era). The others the other guys are part of "The Resistance" and from there, they will do everything possible to fulfill their new mission and return home.
Cast Season 1 Protagonists Nicolás Vázquez as Nicolás Andrés Bauer Emilia Attias as Ángeles Inchausti / Cielo Mágico
Main cast Juan Pedro Lanzani as Thiago Adolfo Bedoya Agüero Mariana Espósito as Marianella Talarico Rinaldi María Eugenia Suárez as Jazmín Romero Guzmán Gastón Dalmau as Ramiro Ordóñez Nicolás Riera as Juan "Tacho" Morales Stéfano de Gregorio as León "Lleca" Benítez Agustín Sierra as Ignacio "Nachito" Pérez Alzamendi Candela Vetrano as Estefanía "Tefi" Elordi Rinaldi Alejo García Pintos as Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero Gimena Accardi as Malvina Bedoya Agüero Julia Calvo as Justina Merarda García Guadalupe Antón as Alelí Ordóñez Tomás Ross as Cristóbal Bauer / Cristóbal Ibarlucía Florencia Cagnasso as Luz Inchausti Nazareno Antón as Mateo "Monito" Bauer Inchausti Gerardo Chendo as Mogli Lucas Ferraro as Marcos Ibarlucía / James Jonses
Antagonists Alejo García Pintos as Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero Julia Calvo as Justina Merarda García
Participations Sergio Bermejo as Adolfo Pérez Alzamendi Luz Cipriota as Brenda Azúcar Luis Campos as Pedro Rinaldi Silvina Bosco as Rosalía Ordóñez Luis Gianneo as Ernesto Vico Ezequiel Castaño as Alberto "Albertito" Paulazzo Vilma Ferrán as Rosarito Guevara de Dios Dani La Chepi as María Jenny Williams as Bárbara Benjamín Rojas as Himself Marcos Woinski as Aldo Esteban Inchausti Juan Carlos Galván as Jasper Hantus Graciela Pal as Berta Bauer Lucrecia Blanco as Carla Kosovsky Gustavo Bonfigli as Ramón Bueno Débora Warren as Sandra Rinaldi / Julia Elordi Fabián Talín as Sergio Elordi Celina Font as Ornella Blaquier Tony Lestingi as Ismael Azúcar Adrián Spinelli as Mauro Loyza Coni Marino as Mercedes Benítez Alejandro Gancé as Marcelo Benítez Graciela Stéfani as María Laura "Malala" Torres Oviedo Vda. de Santillán Angela Ragno as Older Esperanza Bauer Laura Anders as Dolores Federico Amador as Álex Giselle Bonafino as Lola Dolores Ocampo as Federica Sofía Elliot as Marilyn Camila Riveros as Josefina "Ardilla" Lucero Gabo Correa as Malatesta Marcelo Mazzarello as "El Payaso Llorón" Solange Verina
Season 2 Protagonists Nicolás Vázquez as Nicolás Andrés Bauer Emilia Attias as Ángeles Inchausti / Cielo Mágico / Linda Barba
Main cast Juan Pedro Lanzani as Thiago Adolfo Bedoya Agüero Mariana Espósito as Marianella Talarico Rinaldi María Eugenia Suárez as Jazmín Romero Guzmán Gastón Dalmau as Ramiro Ordóñez Nicolás Riera as Juan "Tacho" Morales Stéfano de Gregorio as León "Lleca" Benítez Agustín Sierra as Ignacio "Nachito" Pérez Alzamendi Candela Vetrano as Estefanía "Tefi" Elordi Rinaldi Pablo Martínez as Simón Bruno Arrechavaleta Rodríguez Rocío Igarzábal as Valeria Gutiérrez María Del Cerro as Melody Paz Gimena Accardi as Malvina Bedoya Agüero Julia Calvo as Justina Merarda García / Felicitas García Victorio D´Alessandro as Luca Franccini Daniela Aita as Caridad Martina Cuesta Guadalupe Antón as Alelí Ordóñez Tomás Ross as Cristóbal Bauer / Cristóbal Ibarlucía Florencia Cagnasso as Luz Inchausti Nazareno Antón as Mateo "Monito" Bauer Inchausti
Antagonists Julia Calvo as Justina Merarda García Mariano Torre as Juan Cruz York Manuela Pal as Franka Mayerhold David Masajnik as Charly
Participations Alejo García Pintos as Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero Nicolás Pauls as Salvador Quiroga Harms / Juan Cruz York Vilma Ferrán as Rosarito Guevara de Dios Marta González as Hilda Fernández Claudia Lapacó as Dora Aguirre Calu Rivero as Juliette David Chocarro as Matt Victoria Maurette as Lic. Fahrenheit Pato Menahem as Bruno "Tic-Tac" Bedoya Agüero Talarico Rinaldi Sofía Palagreco as Baby Esperanza "Hope" Bauer Ángela Ragno as Older Esperanza Bauer Alan Soria as Jerónimo Vanstrante Lucrecia Blanco as Carla Kosovsky Graciela Pal as Berta Suliga Débora Warren as Sandra Rinaldi César Bordón as Mauro "Terremoto" Talarico Celina Font as Ornella Blaquier Bárbara Napal González as Lucía Pérez Alzamendi Aldo Pastur as Francisco Arrechavaleta Paloma Gordo as Soledad Arrechavaleta Rodríguez Mariano Torre as Serafín Nicolás Garnier as Hernán Eliseo Barrionuevo as César Paola Sallustro as Luisa "Lulú" Vanesa Leiro as Cheta ¿? as Octavio Arrechavaleta Rodríguez ¿? as Valentín Arrechavaleta Rodríguez
Season 3 Protagonists Emilia Attias as Paz Bauer Mariano Torre as Camilo Estrella Thiago Bedoya Agüero Lali Esposito as Mar Talarico Rinaldi Gastón Dalmau as Rama Ordoñez Eugenia Suárez as Jazmin Romero Nicoläs Riera as Tacho Morales Agustín Sierra as Ignacio Pérez Alzamendi Candela vetrano as Estefanía Elordi Rinaldi Maria del cerro as Melody Paz Pablo Martinez as Simón Arrechavalet Rocío Carbajal as Valeria Gutiérrez.
Main cast Juan Pedro Lanzani as Thiago Adolfo Bedoya Agüero Mariana Espósito as Marianella Talarico Rinaldi María Eugenia Suárez as Jazmín Romero Guzmán Gastón Dalmau as Ramiro Ordóñez Nicolás Riera as Juan "Tacho" Morales Stéfano de Gregorio as León "Lleca" Benítez Agustín Sierra as Ignacio "Nachito" Pérez Alzamendi / Brian Ignacio "Nerdito" Pérez Alzamendi Elordi Candela Vetrano as Estefanía "Tefi" Elordi Rinaldi Pablo Martínez as Simón Bruno Arrechavaleta Rodríguez Rocío Igarzábal as Valeria Gutiérrez María Del Cerro as Melody Paz Paula Reca as Luna Vörg Jimena Barón as Esperanza "Hope" Bauer Daniela Aita as Caridad Martina Cuesta / Juan Cruz York Daniela Collini as Francisca "Kika" Zanata Jaime Domínguez as Jaime Molina Máximo Reca as Pedro Vörg Benjamín Amadeo as Teo Gorki Julia Calvo as Justina Merarda García Lucas Crespi as Víctor Vörg Maximiliano Ghione as Rafael Alsina
Antagonists Mariano Torre as Juan Cruz York
Participations Emilia Attias as Ángeles Inchausti / Cielo Mágico