La otra mitad del Sol. La serie más galardonada de los años 90

The Other Half of the Sun is a Colombian television series produced by Cenpro TV and broadcast on Canal A in 1995. It starred Alejandra Borrero and Juan Ángel, with antagonistic performances by Kristina Lilley, Kenny Delgado, and Flora Martínez, in her television debut. It explored themes such as reincarnation and past life regression. The series won several awards and was very well received in various Latin American countries. Synopsis: It tells the story of two characters who loved each other in past lives. The symbol of that love is a sun-shaped medallion that breaks in half. If the two halves are not reunited, the love story will end tragically for the couple, symbolizing that even when separated, the two will always find a way to remain connected. However, life and destiny will give them another chance to meet, reuniting them in 1996 in Bogotá. Felipe (Juan Ángel) is now a young university professor of Anthropology, unhappily married to Soledad (Kristina Lilley), a doctor and also a university professor, with whom he has a son, Santiago. Felipe also has a lover, Isabel (Flora Martínez), one of his Anthropology students. These situations of successive lies and insecurities cause Felipe anguish, manifesting in a recurring dream or nightmare, where a woman he has yet to meet dies tragically, while a voice always repeats the following message: Like a sword to defend the homeland: a sun to defend your love. Half a sun on your chest, half a sun on mine, and a single heart for us both; to the top of the tower the lovers will be summoned by death; but only the light of a full sun will transform fate into eternal love. To resolve their relationship problems, Soledad convinces Felipe to visit a psychoanalyst, who turns out to be Diana Robledo (Alejandra Borrero), the woman he constantly sees in the dreams and nightmares that have plagued him for years. The therapy involves hypnosis to clarify the nightmares. The story unfolds primarily in the present day and revisits past lives through Felipe's dreams and hypnosis. The first regression takes him to the era of the Independence of New Granada, specifically to General Simón Bolívar's Liberation Campaign to achieve independence from the Spanish monarchy at the beginning of the 19th century. The second regression then transports him to the 1940s and the Bogotazo, the riots sparked by the assassination of the liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, a crime that ignited a fierce popular uprising in which the people engaged in looting, arson, and armed resistance against the government. These past lives will eventually allow them to uncover their "true" stories and the whole truth about the people around them, so they can reunite the two halves of the sun before fate strikes again. Although Felipe doesn't know it, the family heirloom Diana possesses is the right half of a sun-shaped medallion, which her mother believes is cursed and the cause of all her family's misfortunes and tragedies.