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Wikipedia article
'Bodas de odio' (English title:'Weddings of hate') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa in 1983.[http://www.alma-latina.net/BodasdeOdio/BodasdeOdio.shtml Bodas de odio in Alma Latina] Retrieved February 2, 2015 Its original story was by Caridad Bravo Adams, adapted by Mara Zarattini and directed by Jos Rendn.
Christian Bach, Miguel Palmer and Frank Moro starred as protagonists, while Rosario Glvez, Mara Montao, Antonio Medelln and Rafael Snchez Navarro starred as main antagonists.
The series won Best Telenovela of the Year at the Premios TVyNovelas in 1984.
Plot
Magdalena Mendoza (Christian Bach) is a young woman who is in love with Jos Luis (Frank Moro), a humble soldier. Magdalena is forced by her mother Paula to marry Alejandro Almonte (Michael Palmer), a wealthy man, to save the family from the ruin.
Alejandro, meanwhile, is the illegitimate son of a rich man, who recognized him shortly before his death, and reaches Puebla to see the paper mill that he inherited. Paula, seeing just how wealthy Alejandro is, tries to set her daughter with him. She provokes Alejandro's sympathy, telling him about her family problems. When Alejandro finds out about this, and thinks that Magdalena has agreed, he agrees to marry her. He decides to make her life impossible, especially when he finds out she is in love with Jos Luis. As a way to separate the two, he has the soldier sent to prison. After Alejandro marries Magdalena, Jos Luis escapes from prison and goes to the mansion of the Mendoza family shortly after the wedding.
Magdalena asks to go with Jos Luis, but Alejandro learns about this and decides to take Magdalena to his ranch. Living there are Alejandro's true mother Rosario, Mara, the foreman's daughter who loves Alejandro, and his friends Cipriano and Victor. Alejandro has liberal ideas and movement supporting the rebels against the regime of Porfirio Daz. After learning of Magdalena's whereabouts, Jos Luis began working as a foreman on the ranch. He married Anglica, who has an incurable disease, but in his heart he has always loved Magdalena.
But Magdalena has fallen in love with Alejandro. When Alejandro learns that the new foreman is Jos Luis, he gets angry. He finds out Magdalena is pregnant shortly afterward, but because he now knows the identity of the foreman, he doubts the baby is his. Angry and heartbroken, Alejandro leaves. During the revolution, he is captured by government troops, and Jos Luis, knowing he is sacrificing his life for Magdalena, saves him. He has finally given up on the love he thought he had for her. He saves Alejandro to allow them to have their happily ever after.
Cast
* Christian Bach as 'Magdalena Mendoza'
* Miguel Palmer as 'Alejandro Almonte'
* Frank Moro as 'Jose Luis lvarez'
* Rafael Snchez Navarro as 'Dimitrio Mendoza'
* Magda Guzmn as 'Carmen Mendoza Vda. de Muoz'
* Rosario Glvez as 'Paula de Mendoza'
* Yolanda Mrida as 'Rosario'
* Julieta Egurrola as 'Josefina de Icaza'
* Antonio Valencia as 'Adolfo Chavarri'
* Arturo Benavides as 'Rufino'
* Mara Montao as 'Mara'
* Carlos Riquelme as 'General Ivn Mendoza'
* Jos Luis Padilla as 'Don Porfirio Daz'
* Ofelia Cano as 'Nadia Chavarri de Torres Quintero'
* Silvia Manrquez as 'Armida'
* Antonio Medelln as 'Francisco Torres Quintero'
* Jos Antonio Ferral as 'Vctor'
* Jorge Mondragn as 'Father Abundio'
* Carlos Villarreal as 'Toms'
* Fabio Ramrez as 'Joaqun'
* Roberto Antnez as 'Cipriano'
* Luis Xavier as 'Felipe'
* Arsenio Campos as 'Marquess Sebastin de la Cruz y Caizares'
* Carmen Corts as 'Manuela'
* Lupe Silva as 'Dominga'
* Enrique del Castillo as 'Loreto Meja'
* Patsy as 'Anglica'
* Lizzeta Romo as 'Esperanza'
* Adalberto Parra as 'Ezequiel'
* Alfonso Kafitti as 'Alfonso'
* Miguel ngel Negrete as 'Manuel Caldern'
* Consuelo Frank as 'Aunt Prudencia'
* Helio Castillos as 'Juventino'
* Nerina Ferrer as 'Amalia'
* Rosa Elena Daz as 'Margarita'
* Salvador Quiroz
* Rigoberto Carmona
* Mary Carmen Martnez
* Macario lvarez
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