El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar (English title: The Strange Return of Diana Salazar) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez for Televisa in 1988.^[1][2] It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics. The telenovela was two stories one located in Zacatecas, New Spain on 1627 and another in Mexico City on 1988 in which a woman accused of witch who was burned by the Holy Inquisition, reincarnated in a young girl who seeks to find the reason for his constant nightmares where he died burned.

Lucía Méndez and Jorge Martínez starred as protagonists, while Alma Muriel, Alejandro Camacho and Patricia Reyes Spíndola starred as antagonists.

Plot

In Mexico during the 17th century, the beautiful and aristocratic Leonor de Santiago is engaged to Don Eduardo de Carbajal. Lucrecia Treviño, who also loves Eduardo, is desperate to prevent the announcement of their engagement. When an Inquisition representative arrives to Mexico, Lucrecia accuses Leonor of witchcraft, in a ploy to foil the marriage. Leonor, stung by the accusation, causes a chandelier to fall down and injure others, under the watch of the Inquisitor. Both Eduardo and Leonor are taken by the Inquisition guards, and die in a bonfire swearing eternal love to one another.

360 years later, Diana Salazar is a typical young woman with recurrent dreams about certain time and place that she finds familiar but she can't explain why. She dreams of herself being Leonor de Santiago and she feels a strong love towards a man she doesn't even know; she has only seen him in her dreams, and his name is Eduardo de Carbajal. One particular day, she meets Mario Villarreal, she recognizes him as the man of her dreams, Eduardo de Carbajal, and automatically falls in love with him. Diana keeps having those dreams about the past so she turns for help to Irene del Conde, a psychiatrist with an interest in parapsychology.

Under hypnosis, Diana begins to remember past facts that make her realize that she is the reincarnation of Leonor. She also discovers that Mario was Eduardo de Carbajal, and eventually, she also finds out that Irene del Conde was Lucrecia Trevino, who is determined to win Mario's love after learning that she couldn't have it in her past life because he was in love with Leonor.

Cast

• Lucía Méndez as Diana Salazar/Doña Leonor de Santiago
• Jorge Martinez as Mario Villareal/Don Eduardo Carbajal
• Rafael Baledon as Ing. Ernesto Santelmo
• Rosa Maria Bianchi as Malena Salazar Obregon
• Alejandro Camacho as Dr. Omar Santelmo
• Carlos Camara as Luther Henrich/Franz Webber
• Ricardo Lizama as Ignacio Galván
• Carlos Magana as Tte. Juan Manuel Amezcua
• Rebeca Manriquez as Marisela Castro
• Alma Muriel as Dr. Irene Del Conde/Doña Lucrecia Treviño
• Chela Najera as Fidelia "Nela" Velasco
• Alejandra Peniche as Monica Auseta
• Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Jordana Hernández
• Adriana Roel as Delfina García Vda. de Salazar
• Fernando Saenz as Rodrigo Enríquez
• Mario Sauret as Rodrigo Cervantes de Benavente
• Alejandro Tommasi as Adrián Alfaro
• Rafael Velasquez as Enrique Falcon
• Paola Ochoa
• Carlos Gajardo

Awards

References

External links

• El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar at the Internet Movie Database