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SYNOPSIS

Somewhere in the universe where love stories are born and where songs are inspired, those same songs which nourish lover’s soul; someone was paying attention to Manolo while he swore to Noelia that if he could turn back time, he wouldn’t make the same mistakes that unchained the breaking of their engagement and Noelia’s irrevocable decision to move on and forget that she ever loved Manolo and further more becoming engaged to Eddy, a boyfriend that she had before Manolo. Whoever it was that heard the oath of our stories male lead also had the power of granting Manolo his wish. The opportunity of going back in time and having the chance to amend your errors but with an unrelenting condition: If within a six month period Manolo is not able of complying with his oath, Noelia will inevitably be condemned to die on the evening of September 6. The countdown initiates on the morning Manolo after surviving a serious car accident that occurred when he was speeding at more than a hundred miles per hour; he wakes up on a hospital bed. The accident was caused by Manolo who was speeding blinded by the desperation while arguing with Noelia; who he now believes to be dead. When Manolo manages to understand that Noelia is alive thanks to his wish, he also acknowledges that the only way to avoid her fatal destiny from coming true is that he doesn’t make a single mistake. Although Manolo believes he knows the road he’ll travel this will not make the trip any easier. Manolo will find himself disoriented; he’ll lose focus causing him not to realize new dangers that will put Noelia’s life at risk and at the same time will be obstacles for him to win her love. Manolo’s absent minded personality is not the only challenge he will have to face in his quest to save Noelia from dying; the wide social gap between their families will also greatly contribute to this. Noelia is Juan Fernandez and Victoria Santamaría marriage’s only daughter. Noelia’s parent who consider themselves royalty, have the economic power of coming to Manolo’s neighborhood convinced that they can throw all its residents out and turn it into a new luxurious suburban area for the city’s high class. As for Manolo, he the middle child of Silvio Izquierdo and Lupe Preciado, a couple of hippies that during the sixty’s practiced the philosophy of making love and not war. After twenty-five years of marriage, three children, and a house as their only economic asset, they are still compromised with ideals like equality, social justice and democracy as ways of life which for Noelia’s parents this is a popular thought for working class people with which they cannot mesh with. Manolo’s adventure of trying to be become a good man so he can win back Noelia’s love is accompanied by the complicity of Blas Delgado, his unconditional chubby friend who honors the tune "The ballad for a fat one". Blas Delgado is an enigmatic person who serves as our story’s narrator; he will guide the audience along. A Kiss to Remember is a classic love story with tons of elements of melodrama; of comedy and where a great selection of songs from the 60´s and the 70´s of the gender “Classic Housewives Love Songs” have as much prominence as Manolo and Noelia.

TECHNICAL FILE

DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION: RCN TELEVISION

PRODUCTION DATE: 2008

GENDER: TELENOVELA

PRODUCER: GUILLERMO RESTREPO

ORIGINAL STORY: MAURICIO NAVAS, CONCHITA RUIZ AND TANIA CÁRDENAS

DIRECTOR: HERNEY LUNA

WRITTEN BY: MAURICIO NAVAS, CONCHITA RUIZ AND TANIA CÁRDENAS

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: CÉSAR IBAGÓN

ART DIRECTOR: MÓNICA MARULANDA

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: ANDRÉS PERDIGÓN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ADRIANA FERREIRA

SCRIPT: DIANA QUIROGA

PRODUCTION CHIEF: MARÍA EUGENIA SALAZAR

DRAMATIC COHERENCE: JOHHANA GUTIÉRREZ

SET DESIGNDESIGN: ÁLVARO JOSÉ NARVÁEZ

WARDROBE DESIGN: LINA ÁLVAREZ

AMBIENCE DESIGN: MIRIAM REINA

MAKEUP DESIGN: VERÓNICA INFANTINO

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: OSVALDO MONTES

CONCEPTUAL EDITOR: CATALINA GARCÍA

DURATION: 77 X 60”

CAST

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Humberto Dorado is José Preciado

Lupe's brother, Silvio's brother-in-law, Ernesto, Manolo and Clara de Luna's uncle. No one believes a thing he says but the worst thing is that everything he says is true. He is what can be called The Last Romantic. After his parents' death, he set off just like Nino Bravo, carrying "a kiss and a flower", an "I love you, a caress and a love". He set sail in the best sailor's style and was missing for some fifteen years. During that time, all his family received from him were postcards confirming that he was still alive and that he'd be back soon. Meanwhile, his sister Lupe married Silvio and began to raise the family that sheltered Pepe when he wrote them a letter seeking for asylum. As the house where the Izquierdos lived had been inherited by the Preciados and they had no plans to move out, the family agreed to give Pepe a room. After all, that was all he needed. A globetrotter and an adventurer, Pepe is an expert at contempt. Because of his great love of romantic music, he is an announcer and hosts a radio program at midnight where he can right a love wrong by using ballads. Pepe speaks in terms of ballads; that is to say, all his philosophy can be traced in the lyrics of classic songs: Sandro, Leonardo Favio, Nino Bravo, Shakira, José José, Enrique Guzmán, Piero, etc. As Sandro would say: ‘A girl and a guitar to play are two things no one can do without in life.”. His greatest dream is to start up a millionaire business, a task that doesn't suit him at all. He recalls his past and even though no one believes him, he finds comfort in the nostalgia of those days, when he would compose songs for the great American popes. For this reason, everyone makes fun of him, even his own family. But his great surprise will be to find in a national saving account he opened some sixty years ago a huge amount of dollars accrued from royalties of the songs he actually composed in those times when he was the Wandering Jew, as he'd call himself. Surprises like the one he had the day when Leonardo Favio arrived in his neighborhood looking for him, will eventually confirm that Pepe certainly is the Last Romantic.

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César Mora is Silvio Izquierdo

He is Manolo's father and Lupe Preciado's husband. He is a professor at the national university of humanities, a sociologist and definitely a retired hippy. The best reference we can identify Silvio with, is the character of the father in Family Ties, the television sitcom. A calm man, a new-age follower, liberal and democratic, the type of person Alvaro Uribe would call a terrorist. Even though reality is almost tapping his back, he remains completely unaware of it. He sticks to the decision he and Lupe made over thirty years ago and they are not willing to renounce his principles under no circumstance whatsoever. And they have kept their word. This humanist by conviction believes men are free to decide whatever they want to do with their lives as long as they respect other people's rights. This is the reason why he does not agree with drug possession penalties or with the restrictions the government has imposed on civil rights like smoking, using or doing drugs. He doesn't believe in social classes or in the status that arises from money or appearances. His main conflict in this story is that he will have to confront the tough reality of a society ruled by free market in which a professor of Sociology is not worth more than a chewed gum. In our story, he and Lupe will be the bearers of those times when the romantic music had a different name and they could've even been members of the Club del Clan, although their leftist principles would've never allowed them to do so. Bohemia led them to make friends with men like Harold, Cristopher, Arturo Astudillo, Oscar Golden and women like Emilce, Vicky, the Singer sisters and it's even said that he dated Claudia de Colombia (Gladys Caldas) before she became Burro Mocho's woman. He is a good friend of his children's. As he doesn't believe in authority, he racks his brains trying to find the way to be a paternal figure, a friend, a good advisor and a dad. His crisis will come in hand with age and productivity. Ernesto, his eldest son will have an important participation in this crisis since he will be constantly confronting him with the theories of free market and the competition that wild capitalism poses. He's been married for twenty-five years, not legally married though. They have lived together for twenty-five years. He and Lupe have never needed anyone's blessing to live their love. On several occasions they hesitated about their decision and have even made plans to organize a wedding celebration but the shame they feel in front of their children is so strong that they don't even dare tackle the issue. Lo and behold… Silvio is not perfect! His entire family acknowledges his wisdom and they always turn to him when they have to resolve some history, philosophy or literature homework. But turning to Silvio, however, has a price. His answers are much longer than the Sermon of the Seven Words. That's why, when some of the household members decides to consult Silvio's wisdom, they are taking the risk of being answered.

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María H. Doering is Lupe Preciado De Izquierdo

To be a hippy, a left-wing feminist, a rebellious housewife and a mother of three, to have a grand family name and to live in the XXI century is not an easy task for anyone, let alone for Lupe, who happens to be Manolo, Ernesto and Clara de Luna's mother. To be a fair mother who tries not to manipulate her children while she rejects the family relations with the Virgin of Permanent Help is the task Lupe Izquierdo has strived to achieve right from the moment Ernesto was born. The problem with Lupe is that she was supposed to be a fine lady, with a Toyota truck, a chauffer and a nurse for her children. But at the age of 14, she decided to make a change. She changed schools, dropped out the private bilingual high-school she attending and signed up at an ordinary school. This change not only caused a pre-heart attack to almost six members of her family but took her along the paths of left-wing policies and the Hippy movement which she has not renounced so far. As we said before, her roots are as aristocratic as they can be in Colombia. A tropical aristocracy maybe but upper crust after all. And these roots stand out in Lupe. Her bearing and manners, her good taste and obsessions could never part with her origins, as she did with her political and religious beliefs. Are we exaggerating? Maybe we are, a little bit. Nevertheless, deep down Lupe is proud of her ancestors although this is such a well-hidden secret that she doesn't dare confess it to herself because ninety percent of her life evolves just like her husband's. They don't believe in social classes, races or scrolls. She married fully in love with her husband and she is still in love with a man who has only one family name but has forged his way based on will, honesty and studies. Lupe studied textile design. Her passion for looms is basically a distraction to her since she usually gives away most of the things she makes. When I said her obsessions could not part with her origin, I meant that she inherited from her mother this strong compulsion to build her life on information issued in scientific or pseudo- scientific magazines like Scientific American or Selections. Almost every week, Lupe finds a new theory about something that will inevitably modify the house routines. There was a day for instance when she read that coffee produced cancer or that a research carried out by an English university proved that the sound of clocks and watches would alter the cardiac frequency so she demanded all the members of the family to use sun or sand clocks. And we can't forget the dreadful article on Selections that convinced her that beef reduced longevity in fifteen or twenty percent and she took out of the refrigerator anything that might be related to cows, pork or chicken and her family had to implement a sausage trafficking network to be able to eat something different from spinach, Swiss chard or arugula. She religiously follows Feng Shui and her love for order and tidiness can only be compared to the love she feels for her own children. She is also a sweet, calm and loving woman. In order to protect themselves from her mother's magazine-wisdom, the family usually finds the way to drop some magazines around that speak about new food findings in the consumption of beef or about the cardiovascular benefits of coffee. They drop the magazines carelessly around so that she finds them by accident and puts into practice the new tips with the subsequent satisfaction of eating previously forbidden food. Of course, she loves listening to romantic music and shares with Silvio her likes for the bohemia as well as the parties she holds with friends from the outdated Club del Clan

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Camila Zárate is Noelia Fernández Santamaría

“…I've been dreaming of her for so long and all I know is that she is called Noelia” In fact, Noelia's agony is not really so. Just as it happens with most human beings, she doesn't have the faintest idea of what is going on around her. She is the Fernandez's only child, the eldest and the youngest. Fortunately for her parents and for us, Noelia has lots of virtues. I say fortunately for us because a protagonist without virtues would be the antagonist in which case we'd be in serious trouble. So, let's define Noelia according to what she is not. Noelia Fernández Santamaría IS NOT: She is not the antagonist of The Last but One Kiss. Drug-addict. A woman with a very bad conduct. The daughter of a man who is not called Fernández Ugly Rude Raised in a bad family Diabetic A man It is to be expected that by turning to a description that lists negative features, the reader of this project can easily understand that a woman like Noelia can only exits in telenovelas. Because in fact, Noelia is definitely well-educated; she has attended high school in the United States of America, has taken up several courses of glamour and international cuisine and goes to the gym every morning; she's sweet, tender, talented and extremely pampered by her mother and father who do not have the slightest suspicion, not even in their worst dream, that their baby daughter might fall in love with a man different from the one they have chosen for her, different from Eddy Jaramillo, the excellent match, the son of American immigrants that settled down in Medellín, Colombia, a young man who has already given her an engagement ring and from whom they expect the best possible performance ever, as a husband, a father and a son-in-law. But as it always happens in telenovelas as well as in real life, Noelia's parents are completely unaware of who her daughter actually is. It would never cross their minds that the girl might like good-for-nothings, or that she finds bohemian life hotter than the Country Club lifestyle, and that the idea of being the singer of a band that plays romantic music can be more appealing to her than the white blouse and the phonendoscope their parents hanged on her ever since she uttered her first "goo-goo". When Noelia arrives in Colombia, she discovers that right across her building there's a very tempting world, basically in contrast with the kind of pasteurized life she has had during her last years in a condo in Coral Gables. In this new place, boys are used to saying flattering comments to girls, they throw parties, have music bands, goof off in the park until very late at night, gossiping and fighting the cold weather, warming up bottles of coarse brandy in mass and most interesting, none of them is afraid of Juan Fernández, her Dad. That street, the same street where Manolo, Speedy González, the Good Fatso, Mussed-up and Eva Maria the woman with ruby lips live, will be the bridge that will connect Noelia's life, her parents' pasteurized life and her boyfriend with the true NOELIA. She will come and go along that bridge trying to put together two different worlds, as different in nature as water and oil. Noelia plays the role of a plain woman who tries to mix the education and affection their parents have given her with the kind of life she truly wants to live. Before moving to Colombia, she studied dancing and singing at the Performing Arts School in Miami, so as to have a hobby that would round off her career in the School of Medicine in Boston where she will probably go to once she marries Eddy and returns to this original land of opportunities. What nobody knows though, or should I say, what nobody knows in this telenovela because both the viewers and the script writers know that her true fate lies in her hands, or better said, in Manolo's feet, the fateful night when he steals Mr. Juan Fernández's car and she almost dies in his arms if life hadn't given her a second chance.

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Sebastián Martínez is Manolo Izquierdo Preciado

Etymologically, the word protagonist refers to the personwho "dies first" in a narration. In melodramas, which can be sometimes very boring, this situation usually refers to a hero or heroine who suffers for love for some 119 episodes but then, in episode 119 or 120 she somehow manages to make her better half understand they belong to each other so they consequently marry until death do them part. This is the kind of melodrama we've been used to watching on television for ages. Now, we'll see what happens when the story is not focused on making the hero understand that he has to accept his fate but on going against it. Our male protagonist has to understand how fate works on the first place so he can find the way to wriggle out of it and get his own way. In this case, his own way has a name: Noelia, who happens to be the heroine. But we'll get back to her later. Manolo Izquierdo Preciado is what could be technically called a young man who feels unsettled and lives a dissolute life, the black sheep of the family, a rebel without a cause, a vandal, even a terrorist if we analyze him through the light of new theories. He is the middle child of a family that has given him two family names and a complex temper which according to his Aunt Mecha's accurate diagnosis is the result of weak limits. He has attended the first semester of four different careers so now we cross our fingers and pray in the hope that Sound Engineering is the profession that will keep him away from messenger services, bricklaying, poverty or jail. Part of the problem of our hero is what Selections Magazine has called DAF (Deficient Attention Syndrome) which in plain language means a person who is the least careful about the things he has to do, a condition that is increased by an undefeatable procrastination vocation. Manolo always comes up with a more attractive choice instead of doing the task he has to do. That's why his university studies and scheduled scholar duties are subjected to a game of billiards or to boycotting a classy and stuck-up ladies' meeting in his neighborhood or to a quarter of a mile race along a street that is not longer than 200 m. using cars that have been temporarily stolen to their respective parents. Let's make it clear from the very beginning. Manolo is neither rude nor a bad person. Manolo is sort of absent-minded and addicted to adrenaline, a substance that springs from his suprarenal glands and pushes him into any kind of trouble his wide imagination may suggest. Our hero's parents have tried to apply on him the peaceful spirit that has nourished them ever since their hippie times. They were about to throw the towel when the opening event of this story took place. For our purposes, Manolo's story begins the day when, moved by the love and anguish he felt for losing Noelia, he makes use of his criminal ingenuity and steals her father's car in an attempt to persuade her to meet him. This is how he arrives to the party. The dodge worked perfectly well. Noelia, who had promised herself never to see Manolo again, hurries out of the party thinking that she will find her father and bumps into the young man that drives a luxurious car. She realizes he's his adorable criminal, as she had once called him before she grew tired of the guy's mischief. At this point of the story, Manolo is determined to do whatever it takes to recover Noelia's love. Needless to say that his list of choices does not include the possibility of quitting vandalism, something he has been doing for a long time without taking into account the harm he might cause since for his reckoning, this kind of conduct is part of his good sense of humor and entertainment. His good sense of humor, of course. It should be noticed that if the extraordinary event that triggered this narration had not taken place, Manolo and Noelia's story would have finished with her, buried six feet under or with him, locked up in the fifth block of a penitentiary and Noelia visiting every Sunday afternoon and bringing him cigarettes. But in this particular case, it seems the fairies of fortune have decided to reward Manolo for some good action he made in some of his past lives because in this one, we have no records of any whatsoever. So a second before Noelia dies, time suddenly freezes and Manolo is sent six months back in time exactly to the day before he met his better half. Manolo quickly understands that the task he has to undertake does not quite match the usual development of any teleneovela. Quite on the opposite, instead of admitting his fate he'll try to find the way to modify it. Very soon and with Blas' help (the good fatso) our hero will begin to understand that the only possible way to change his fatal fate is by changing himself in the first place. But how? How to quit pillaging, how to explain to Adolfo Afanador - his best buddy- that things will be different now? If he really wants to save Noelia from a tragic death, he'll have to become a mixture of a boy scout and a charity lady, in the shortest possible time. In the same way, how can he refuse to play a billiard game in order to read a manual about The Value of Integrated Circuits in Average Frequencies below 7 Mhz. ? How can he study for a partial test the day ESPN is broadcasting the final all-in wrestling match? But there's one thing that undoubtedly will help him; his love for Noelia is so true that the proximity of her death caused by his own mistake and the tenderness of our boy's heart will make him strong enough to pull himself together, get over fate and overcome something even much stronger. His preceding bad reputation will be his most notorious obstacle in achieving his objevtive. Throughout the story, Manolo will experience in the flesh the great human difficulty that implies for a young man who feels unsettled and lives a dissolute life, the black sheep of the family, a rebel without a cause, a vandal, even a terrorist if we analyze him through the light of new theories to believe that he may rehabilitate and finally become a hero when right at the last second of the series he plucks up enough courage to make a risky, brave decision regardless of his own interests but definitely committed to his love for Noelia.

DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION: RCN TELEVISION

PRODUCTION DATE: 2008

GENDER: TELENOVELA

PRODUCER: GUILLERMO RESTREPO

ORIGINAL STORY: MAURICIO NAVAS, CONCHITA RUIZ AND TANIA CÁRDENAS

DIRECTOR: HERNEY LUNA

WRITTEN BY: MAURICIO NAVAS, CONCHITA RUIZ AND TANIA CÁRDENAS

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: CÉSAR IBAGÓN

ART DIRECTOR: MÓNICA MARULANDA

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: ANDRÉS PERDIGÓN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ADRIANA FERREIRA

SCRIPT: DIANA QUIROGA

PRODUCTION CHIEF: MARÍA EUGENIA SALAZAR

DRAMATIC COHERENCE: JOHHANA GUTIÉRREZ

SET DESIGNDESIGN: ÁLVARO JOSÉ NARVÁEZ

WARDROBE DESIGN: LINA ÁLVAREZ

AMBIENCE DESIGN: MIRIAM REINA

MAKEUP DESIGN: VERÓNICA INFANTINO

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: OSVALDO MONTES

CONCEPTUAL EDITOR: CATALINA GARCÍA

DURATION: 77 X 60”