Chiquititas: Rincón de luz

Chiquititas: Rincón de luz
Directed by	José Luis Massa
Produced by	Juan Lovece Carlos Mentasti
Written by	Alex Ferrara Walter Ferrara
Starring	Romina Yan Facundo Arana Juan Leyardo Alejandra Flechner Benjamin Rojas Felipe Colombo Nadia Di Cello Sebastián Francini
Music by	Rocky Nilson
Cinematography	Ricardo Rodríguez
Distributed by	Líder Films S.A.
Release date(s)	July 12, 2001 (Argentina) December 6, 2001 (Israel)
Running time	100 min.
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

Chiquititas: Rincón de luz (English: Tiny Angels: Corner of light) is a 2001 Argentine adventure film directed by José Luis Massa and written by Alex and Walter Ferrara. The film starred Romina Yan and is a film from the Chiquititas telenovela series which began on Argentine TV in 1995. The film premiered in Argentina on July 12, 2001. This film was produced by Cris Morena, who also componed the music for this film, and who is also creator of Chiquititas telenovela. The stories are not the same, but there are some same characters, portrayed by Benjamin Rojas, Felipe Colombo, Sebastián Francini, Nadia Di Cello, Luisana Lopilato, Camila Bordonaba and Agustín Sierra.

Synopsis

The film tells story of Belén, a sweet and beautiful girl, to whom, a wise man offers the possibility to choose her own destiny. She can pick it from stories already written in books that are in magic library. Belén is really tempted by this offer, but she decides to take the high road by writing her own story, not knowing how it will come out, although she doesn't know how it will end up she is certain that in her quest she will be helping a group of orphans. Magically she finds herself in a village, called Ciervo Dorado, which is in the middle of the mountains. It is in that place where she finds love among the orphans, faces an evil colonel who ill-treats the children and meets Alejo, who will steal her heart.

Cast

• Romina Yan as Belén Fraga
• Facundo Arana as Alejo Méndez Ayala
• Juan Leyardo as Coronel Francisco Estévez
• Alejandra Flechner as Marga
• Cristian Belgrano as Cristián Maza
• Agustín Sierra as Agustín Maza
• Milagros Flores as Juana Maza
• Benjamín Rojas as Bautista Arce
• Luisana Lopilato as Luisana Maza
• Felipe Colombo as Felipe Mejías
• Camila Bordonaba as Camila Bustillo
• Natalia Melcon as Natalia Ramos
• Nadia Di Cello as María Fernández
• Federico Barón as Federico Martínez
• Sebastián Francini as Sebastián Mansilla
• Gilda Gentile as Gitana
• Carlos Kaspar as Huevero
• Lelio Lesser as Man in town
• Gustavo Pastorini as Conejero
• Alejandra Perlusky as Vendedora de pescado
• Brian Vainberg as Tok

Characters

• Belén Fraga (Romina Yan) is a beautiful young girl, who wants to find her own destiny. She finds the secret cave, where a wise man offers her to choose the destiny of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Rapunzel, but Belén decides to write her own story, not knowing how it will finish. Her only wish is to find her happiness between the orphans. Magically, she finds herself in the village Ciervo Dorado, and falls in love with Alejo. She starts working as a chef. Soon, the orphans discover that she is the best thing that ever happened to them.

• Alejo Méndez Ayala (Facundo Arana) is a young man, who believes he can find the blue diamonds. There is the legend, who tells the story of blue diamonds, hidden in the mountain near the village Ciervo Dorado. With his young friend Felipe, he tries to find those diamonds. He falls in love with Belén.
• Felipe Mejías (Felipe Colombo) is a young boy from the village, who helps Alejo to find the blue diamonds. He is in love with Camila Bustillo, a girl from the orphanage, and their relationship is a secret. Camila can't see him anymore when Marga finds out about their relationship, but, thanks to Belén they keep seeing each other.
• Sebástian Mansilla (Sebastián Francini) is one of the youngest orphans. He is a rebel, and tries to escape from the orphanage, because Coronel Francisco and Marga ill-treat the children. He tries to escape from their regime. But, Coronel finds him in the village and lock him at the attack. Belén sings him and gives him the blanket, so Sebas starts loving her. After releasing him, he lock Sebas once again, when Belén saves him.
• Federico Martínez (Federico Barón) and Agustín Maza (Agustín Sierra) are best friends of Sebastian. Three of them believe in the blue diamonds and they are trying to find them, because they believe that they will set them free of Marga, Coronel and the life of an orphan.
• María Fernández (Nadia Di Cello), Juana Maza (Milagros Flores) and Natalia Ramos (Natalia Melcon) are best friends, the youngest children in the orphanage. María is the first who finds out how nice Belén is, but says that to nobody. All three girls find out when there is a storm outside, and they're scared. They go to the room of Belén, where she sings them "Había Una Vez". They start loving her and María is now sure that Belén is always nice.
• Bautista Arce (Benjamín Rojas) and Luisana Maza (Luisana Lopilato) are best friends. They hate Belén at the beginning and they try to send her away, but they soon change their mind. Bautista falls in love with Luisana and makes two necklaces, one for her and one for him. He tells Luisana that he loves her, but Luisana is not sure. Camila tells her that she can see they are in love. Bautista and Luisana start wearing those necklaces and start a relationship.
• Coronel Francisco Estévez (Juan Leyardo) and Marga (Alejandra Flechner) are the possessors of the orphanage. They ill-treat children, forcing them to work hard. Belén, trying to help the children, faces with them. Coronel uses some illegal ways to find the blue diamonds and get rich. The care of the orphans is, for them, only the way how to get more money from the Government of Ciervo Dorado.

External links

• Chiquititas: Rincón de luz at the Internet Movie Database