El Derecho de Nacer (2001 telenovela)

El Derecho de Nacer
Genre Telenovela
Created by Félix B. Caignet
Directed by Sergio Cataño
Starring Kate del Castillo
Saúl Lisazo
Diana Bracho
Carlos Bracho
Maite Embil
Sabine Moussier
Gabriela Goldsmith
Hugo Acosta
Jorge Antolín
Sergio Corona
David Ostrosky
Francis Laboriel
Theme music composer Alejandro Fernández
Opening theme "Quisiera"
Country of origin Mexico
Original language(s) Spanish
No. of episodes 63
Production
Producer(s) Carlos Sotomayor
Running time approx. 44 minutes
Production company(s) Televisa
Distributor Televisa
Broadcast
Original channel El Canal de las Estrellas
Original run 5 February 2001 – 25 May 2001
Chronology
Preceded by Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Followed by Sin Pecado Concebido
Related shows El derecho de nacer
External links
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El Derecho de Nacer (Spanish: The Right to Be Born) is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 5 February 2001 to 25 May 2001. A remake of the popular 1981 telenovela of the same name, it stars Kate del Castillo and Saúl Lisazo.

Plot

El derecho de nacer tells the story of the del Junco family: Rafael (Carlos Bracho), a powerful man, a despot, and a male chauvinist; his wife Clemencia (Diana Bracho), who flees her reality with drugs; and their daughters María Elena (Kate del Castillo) and Matilde (Maite Embil), victims of their father's oppression. Their father is, to the public, a pillar of society, but in secret gives free rein to his base instincts.

María Elena is seduced by Alfredo Martínez (Hugo Acosta), a compulsive gambler who flees the city in order to escape his debts, leaving the minor pregnant. Upon finding out, Don Rafael tries to abort his daughter's child, but it's too late, so he sends her to his farm so that the baby will be born there. Given María Elena's refusal to give the child up for adoption, her father orders his foreman to kill the newborn. María Dolores (Francis Laboriel), María Elena's faithful nanny, saves the little one and flees with him to Mexico City. Don Rafael believes that the child has died, while María Elena dedicates her body and soul to searching for her little son with the help of Aldo Drigani (Saúl Lisazo), whom she later marries after he saves her from various conflicts.

With many sacrifices, but with a mother's great love, María Dolores rears little Alberto (Miguel Ángel Biaggio) and educates him so that he will be a good man. Thus, he becomes a brilliant physician who goes to Mérida, where he faces a past that he never suspected and a future he never pursued.

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