Cuna de lobos

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Cuna de lobos
Directed by	Carlos Téllez Antonio Acevedo
Written by	Carlos Olmos
Script by	Margarida Villaseñor
Cinematography by	Carlos S.Zuñiga
Produced by	Carlos Téllez
Starring	María Rubio Gonzalo Vega Diana Bracho Alejandro Camacho
Music by	Pedro Plascencia Salinas
Theme song	—
Performed by	—
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish
Network	Televisa
Broadcast	1986
No. of episodes	120

Cuna de lobos is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcasted on Televisa in 1986. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico, and also as an export to several countries, including the United States and Australia.

[edit] Profile

The most memorable character in Cuna de Lobos, and central to its storylines and themes, is matriarch Catalina Creel, played by actress María Rubio, a villainess in the grand dramatic tradition of Dynasty's Alexis Carrington, or Dallas' J.R. Ewing.

Catalina's unnatural devotion to her eldest son caused her conceal a healthy eye behind the lie of blindness, commit a series of murders beginning with her own husband, Carlos (his crime: realising how truly evil she was) and finally to participate in the abduction of a child to ensure her son's inheritance was confirmed.

Such is the impact of her performance, that telenovela's villainess take her as a role model, and when a program parodies a telenovela, the main villain is usually based on her.

[edit] Popularity

Cuna de Lobos was so popular in its native country that on the night of the final broadcast, the streets of Mexico City - famously choked with traffic - were deserted as the locals were in their homes glued to their TV screens. It has been re-screened several times in the United States and Australia in recent years. Televisa has announced that they're working on a remake for the end of 2006, which marks the 20th anniversary of this telenovela.

[edit] Other versions

The storyline of "Cuna de Lobos" is somewhat similar to the story of the movie "The Anniversary" (1968), starring Bette Davis.

There is a version of "Cuna de Lobos" produced in Spain (2002), called "La Verdad de Laura", with Mónica Estarreado, Mariano Alameda and Mirtha Ibarra.

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[edit] Awards

The Best Telenovela of the Year", TVyNovelas Award in 1987. In 2006. TvyNovelas named it the best telenovela ever!

[edit] Cast

María Rubio as Catalina Creel de Larios Gonzalo Vega as José Carlos Larios Diana Bracho as Leonora Navarro Alejandro Camacho as Alejandro Larios Rebecca Jones as Vilma Gaxiola de Larios Roberto Vander as Mr. Julio Cifuentes Margarita Isabel as Mrs. Cifuentes Carmen Montejo as Esperanza Mandujano Rosa María Bianchi as Bertha Moscoso Carlos Cámara as Reynaldo Gutiérrez Enrique Muñoz as Lic. Curiel Lilia Aragón as Rosalía Josefina Echánove as Elvia Humberto Elizondo as Suarez Magda Karina as Lucero Julia Alfonzo as Camarera Lourdes Canale as Carmelita Ramón Menéndez as Doctor Frank Syndell José Ángel Espinosa "Ferrusquilla" as Don Braulio Blanca Torres as Clotilde Miguel Gómez Checa as Doctor Augusto Teran Edna Bolkan as Paulina Cifuentes

Carlos Pouillot as Edgar de Gaxiola Mercedes Pascual as Iris Van Den Sandt de Gaxiola Eduardo Alcántara as Melquiades Ana Bertha Espín as Mayra Luis Rivera as Mauricio Enrique Hidalgo as Esteban Gamboa Humberto Valdepeña as Doctor Mendiola Maricruz Nájera as Gutierrez widow Ricardo Ledezma as Pancho Wally Barrón as Inspector Luna Carmen Amezcua as Camarera Carlos Bonavides as Leonardo Sánchez Gerardo Mayol as Gomez Oralia Olvera as Rocio Edmundo Baraona as Trejo Klein Humberto Jorge Santos Emilio Guerrero Enrique Nuñez Santiago Gil Ontiveros René Gonzales Mauricio Sandoval Jorge Fegan as Escudero

A scene from the telenovela featuring (in clock-wise order, from top-left): Josefina Echánove, Gonzalo Vega, María Rubio, Diana Bracho and Carmen Montejo

[edit] Plot

In the opening episode, Carlos Larios, the head of the international pharmaceuticals giant Lar Creel, tells his cruel wife Catalina that he knows the terrible secret she has concealed for many years - and that he intends to expose her.

To protect such a secret - that the eye she claims was blinded by his eldest son Jose Carlos (of a previous marriage) is in fact healthy, a secret perversely intended destroy the boy's self-confidence and allow his little brother Alejandro (Carlos's and Catalina's son) to flourish - she poisons and kills Carlos.

Her late husband, however, gets his revenge from beyond the grave. His will stipulates that whichever of his sons - Alejandro (Alejandro Camacho) or Jose Carlos (Gonzalo Vega) - produces a son and heir first, will inherit control of Lar Creel. As the story begins, Jose Carlos is unmarried, but Catalina's favorite, Alejandro, is married to the infertile Vilma (Rebeca Jones).

To win his inheritance, the evil Alejandro wooes and secretly "marries" a young woman named Leonora Navarro (Diana Bracho). She falls pregnant and when their son, Edgar, is born, Alejandro and Catalina take the child and discard the now-insane with grief Leonora to an asylum. He returns to Mexico City and passes the child off as his and Vilma's, his beloved, and also evil wife.

Leonora, meanwhile, rises Phoenix-like from the flames of betrayal, and in a succession of schemes marries herself to Jose Carlos, the slighted brother, and moves herself and her godmother Esperanza into the Larios mansion - all with the clear intention of unmask Alejandro's deception, recovering her child and punishing Catalina and Alejandro for their sins.

Catalina, of course, is not a woman to take such an attack lying down. She retaliates, protecting the crime, and another scheme in which Lar Creel pharmaceuticals were sold illegally to a disreputable clinic, through a series of murders (all perpetrated by Catalina in a disguise).

At the end everything falls into it's right place, the good are rewarded and the evil are punished. But the very end of the last chapter holds a big a surprise.

[edit] External links

• Cuna de Lobos at the Telenovela Database.
• Cuna de Lobos at the Internet Movie Database.