La Teacher de Inglés
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La teacher de inglés is a 2011 Colombia
n telenovela
produced and broadcast by Caracol TV
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citizen. Kike starts doing business with American clients, but since he does not speak English
, he asks his cousin Luis Fernando (Juan Alfonso Baptista) for help. Luis Fernando, who is involved with drug dealers, is joined by his assistant and lover Milena (Isabel Estrada), both wishing to take advantage of Kike's company. Despite his cousin's help, Kike decides to learn English on his own and meets Pili (Carolina Gómez), a middle-class young woman and a professional English teacher unable to travel to the US after having her visa
denied. Kike slowly falls in love with Pili and hires her in order to give private English classes for him and his employees.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
produced and broadcast by Caracol TV
Caracol TV
Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...
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Plot
Jesús Kike Peinado (Víctor Mallarino) is the owner of a lingerie manufacturing company, which he founded with his ex wife Mercedes (Lully Bossa), who left him after getting involved with a rich AmericanUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
citizen. Kike starts doing business with American clients, but since he does not speak English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, he asks his cousin Luis Fernando (Juan Alfonso Baptista) for help. Luis Fernando, who is involved with drug dealers, is joined by his assistant and lover Milena (Isabel Estrada), both wishing to take advantage of Kike's company. Despite his cousin's help, Kike decides to learn English on his own and meets Pili (Carolina Gómez), a middle-class young woman and a professional English teacher unable to travel to the US after having her visa
Visa (document)
A visa is a document showing that a person is authorized to enter the territory for which it was issued, subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry. The authorization may be a document, but more commonly it is a stamp endorsed in the applicant's passport...
denied. Kike slowly falls in love with Pili and hires her in order to give private English classes for him and his employees.
Cast
- Victor Mallarino as Jesús Antonio Kike Peinado
- Carolina Gómez as Pilar Pili Ortega
- Juan Alfonso Baptista as Luis Fernando Caicedo
- Isabel Cristina Estrada as Milena Ramírez
- Dora Cadavid as Rita
- Lully Bossa as Mercedes
- Kenny Delgado as José Acosta
- Samara de Córdova as Eloísa
- Ilja Rosendahl as Immigration Officer
- Jenny Marie Marrero as American confused hotel receptionist
External links
- Official site (in Spanish)
- Parody (in Spanish and English)