Valientes
| Valientes Una Historia de Amor y De Venganza |
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Clockwise from top left: Segundo (Mariano Martínez), Leonardo (Luciano Castro), Enzo (Gonzalo Heredia), Juana (Eleonora Wexler), Alma (Julieta Diaz) and Isabel (Marcela Kloosterboer)
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| Genre | Telenovela |
| Created by | Adrián Suar |
| Developed by | Pol-Ka |
| Written by | Marcos Carnevale Lily Ann Martin |
| Opening theme | Volver |
| Ending theme | Volver |
| Composer(s) | Ricardo Montaner |
| Country of origin | Argentina |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 218 |
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| Original network | Canal 13 |
| Original release | February 9, 2009 – February 24, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Por amor a vos |
| Followed by | Alguien que me quiera |
Valientes (in Spanish, "The braves") is a telenovela from Argentina, aired by Canal 13 at the prime time and produced by Pol-Ka. Main actors are Luciano Castro, Julieta Díaz and Arnaldo André, and it is one of the most successful TV programs from Argentina of 2009. With a daily rating of nearly 27,4 points, it is the most successful production of Pol-Ka. It run from February 2009 to 2010. From April 16, 2010 the show was airing in Slovakia on JOJ Plus but due the poor ratings it was cancelled after 48 episodes, the rest of the episodes start broadcast on JOJ Plus from March 6, 2012 taking the slot at 4 AM.
The main idea of the telenovela is a plot of revenge by 3 brothers who used to live in the countryside, whose father was ruined by a businessman who took his farms. For this purpose they move to Buenos Aires and work near him, in order to become his friends and confidents, and avenge his father by sabotaging his political career. The love stories of the show torn the characters between their sentiments and their loyalty to the plan.
The series replaced Por amor a vos on Channel 13 and was aired in the same time segment than the soap-opera Los exitosos Pells of Telefe. The idea was to confront the humoristic style of the later with a melodramatic telenovela. The dramatic tone of the series allowed a strong success among the male audiences, a rare event among Argentine telenovelas, which led to the high success of the program in audiences.
The success of the series led to a spin-off theater play by the main actors, reprising the characters from the TV but inside a humoristic story.
The ending of the series was followed by a "behind the scenes" production and a rerun of the last episodes. It was replaced by the soap opera Alguien que me quiera, of a less dramatic nature, but it didn't have much success. As a result, and attempting to keep the audience of Valientes, Alguien que me quiera was scheduled to another hour, and another series was created, Malparida. Heredia also works in this one, and it is also a story of revenge. Luciano Castro would also join Malparida some time afterwards.
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