¿Dónde está Elisa?

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This article is about the telenovela produced by TVN. For telenovela produced by Telemundo, see ¿Dónde Está Elisa?.
¿Dónde está Elisa?
Directed by María Eugenia Rencoret
Rodrigo Velásquez
Claudio López de Lérida
Written by Pablo Illanes
Script by Pablo Illanes
Nona Fernández
Hugo Morales
Josefina Fernández
Cinematography by
Produced by Daniela Demicheli, Mauricio Campos
Starring Sigrid Alegría
Francisco Melo
Montserrat Prats
Paola Volpato
Francisco Reyes
Francisca Imboden
Álvaro Rudolphy
Alejandra Fosalba
Music by
Theme song
Performed by
Country Chile
Language Spanish
Network TVN
Broadcast Santiago, 2010
No. of episodes

¿Dónde está Elisa? (Where is Elisa?) is a Chilean telenovela, that first appeared on television on April 21 of 2009 in TVN. Written by Pablo Illanes, with scripts from Pablo Illanes, Nona Fernández, Hugo Morales and Josefina Fernández. Directed by María Eugenia Rencoret. In 2010 the telenovela was remade by the Telemundo network in the USA and [MD entertainment] in Indonesia which is titled Di Mana Melani. ABS-CBN of the Philippines is doing a remake entitled Nasaan Ka, Elisa?.

The story involves the events of the disappearance of Elisa (Montserrat Prats), one of the daughters of the couple formed by Raimundo Domínguez (Francisco Melo) and Francisca Correa (Sigrid Alegría), who after 17 years of marriage become so desperate that their own marriage is in danger.

Inspiration of the story comes from the real life drama involving vanished British native Madeleine McCann in Portugal. However, unlike the McCann story, the soap opera features a teenager who disappears and not a small child. The disappearance in a local club makes the story very similar to that of Jorge Matute Johns, a Chilean youngster who disappeared and was never seen again after leaving a party at a local disco. The list of suspects is long and includes family members, fellow students, and friends of the teenager who frequented the same places that she did prior to her disappearance.

Production began on August 14, 2008.

The first infomercial or preview of the production was shown on Friday March 13, 2009.

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[edit] Plot

The lives of the Domínguez family will change forever based on the events surrounding the disappearance of Elisa (Montserrat Prats), one of the daughters of the marriage of Raimundo Domínguez (Francisco Melo) and Francisca Correa (Sigrid Alegría).

Once she disappears, we begin to learn the secrets of every member of the family as well as those of her friends. Paranoia sets in, the past is dragged up, matters that were supposed to be buried reappear and recriminations among family members start.

All these events lead to a long list of suspects, among them family members (uncles, cousins, and her parents), fellow students, former employees of the Domínguez family and several friends who used to frequent the same places she did prior to her disappearance.

[edit] Cast

Other Frequently Appearing Cast:

Special Cast

[edit] Cultural references

  • Among the first names that the telenovela was planning to use were "Buscando a Elisa" (Looking for Elisa), "Desaparecida" (Missing) and "Elisa".
  • It is the first telenovela for Montserrat Prats, after her professional debut in the series Mi primera vez (My first time) and Aída, both from TVN.
  • Katyna Huberman had to leave the cast due to her pregnancy.
  • The role of Francisco Reyes was originally to be played by Julio Milostich, but after the scandal that he was involved with, casting came up with people like Luciano Cruz-Coke, Bastián Bodenhöfer and Reyes himself; The first one had a contract with Roos Film and the second one with Canal 13. Finally the role went to Reyes, who had expressed a really great attitude in participating in a late evening production from TVN.
  • This will be the second time where Francisca Imboden and Álvaro Morales will be a couple in fiction, after they played a couple in Pampa Ilusión (Isidora and Melchor).
  • The role of Cesar Caillet is a Homosexual who had an affair with the husband of his best friend.

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[edit] Curiosities

  • The first few episodes were transmitted between the end of the News (24 Horas) and the beginning of the weather reports (TV Tiempo).
  • In the Facebook page that Elisa was using, her mother tells authorities that a message appeared, this denotes two errors; first, no anonymous messages can be received on this site, since only registered users can send and receive messages; secondly, the message was sent by Elisa’s profile itself, which means that she sent the message or somebody that knew her password.
  • The supposed message from the Facebook account was sent with an IP address that starts with 68.xxx.xxx.xxx, while in Chile one could only use the format 200.xxx.xxx.xxx.
  • The search engine that Francisca Correa was using, called "Search", utilizes the same format as Google.
  • In the telenovela’s debut, two episodes were transmitted back to back without commercial interruption.
  • The newspaper called "El ciudadano", utilizes the same format as La Tercera.
  • Starting on Monday, July 20, the slogan of the telenovela will be changed from "A todos nos puede pasar" (It could happen to anyone) to "Mirando a través del mal" (Looking through evil eyes), this is because starting on episode 52 transmitted on the same day, the audience will know who the kidnapper is.

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