Azul Tequila

Azul Tequila
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Alfonso Acebal
Written by	Alfonso Acebal Jorge Landa
Directed by	Humberto Zurita
Starring	Bárbara Mori Mauricio Ochmann
Music by	Federico Chávez Blanco Armando Manzanero
Opening theme	Instrumental
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	160
Production
Producer	Zuba Producciones
Cinematography	Carlos Guerra Sergio Treviño
Production companies	TV Azteca Digital ZUBA Producciones
Original release
Network	Azteca Trece
Release	1998 (1998)

Azul Tequila is a Mexican telenovela. The 160-episode serial was produced for TV Azteca by the celebrity couple Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita in conjunction with Humberto's brother Gerardo through their production company ZUBA Producciones. The complete series has been released in an 8 DVD box set.

Plot

Azul is a young woman in the end of the 19th century who has been forced to get engaged to Arcadio Berriozabal when she is in love with his brother Santiago Berriozabal. Before her wedding peasant revolution is started and she is kidnapped. Santiago, believing she is dead, creates one of the finest tequilas and calls it "Azul Tequila".^[1]

Cast

• Bárbara Mori as Azul / Soledad
• Mauricio Ochmann as Santiago Berriozabal
• Víctor González as Arcadio Berriozabal
• Rogelio Guerra as Adolfo Berriozabal
• Leonardo Daniel as Mariano
• Fabiola Campomanes as Lorenza
• Úrsula Prats as Hilda
• Lorena Rojas as Catalina

Reception

With an approximate cost of $5,000,000 United States dollars, this production was praised by the critics,^{[citation needed]} but was not a great success with the Mexican audience.^{[citation needed]} It was a successful telenovela in Europe, Asia, Malaysia, and Thailand.^{[citation needed]} This was the first telenovela for Ursula Pratts with TV Azteca, and also the first in 10 years after Monte Calvario in 1988.

References

1. "Azul Tequila" Alma-Latina. Retrieved 2014-1-5.

External links

• Azul Tequila at IMDb