Etiqueta: Death
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Blanca in the outside and Rosa in the inside (Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro)
Blanca is a feisty woman who bases her marriage with Ramón on fighting and throwing to each other everything at hand. One day comes to their house Héctor, Rosa’s husband, who was Blanca’s good-natured sister and died in a rail accident, to announce he is leaving for Patagonia. Ramiro, fed up with his wife, offers…
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Pepa Doncel
The story relates Felisa Rodriguez de Medina’s life, known artistically as Pepa Doncel. After getting married with Mr. Cifuentes, she gains certain prestige among the small local bourgeoisie. After her husband’s death, she insists on marrying her daughter Genoveva, in order to be accepted again by the local bourgeoisie. But the suitor, a well-positioned man…
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That Saturday night (La noche del sábado)
Imperia, a young woman, works as a dancer, but after losing her job she sees herself working as a prostitute, where she meets Prince Miguel, who is the heir to the Suabian throne. The prince falls madly in love with her, but she refuses to go with him. Everything changes after the death of Donina,…
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The honesty of the lock (La honradez de la cerradura)
A bourgeois marriage is visited by The Lady, a lender who asks them to keep some money because she fears that it can be stolen by the maid. The Husband and wife accept, although they are surprised and overwhelmed by the request of the stranger. The next morning, the Lady dies, so the marriage decides…
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The Lower Noblewoman (La infanzona)
This story relates the life of Doña Isabel, who raised a son on her own. The young man suspects that his father was killed by his uncles. What he does not know is that he is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between Isabel and one of her bothers. The story reaches its climax when…
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Immaculate in Grieve (La Inmaculada de los Dolores)
A young girl, after the death of her fiancé, feels the necessity of mourning as if the wedding had actually taken place. For this same reason, everyone calls her "the Immaculate in Grieve". The young girl continues to live in her former fiancé’s parents’ house, and is protected by them. In the end, the young…
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Coming from a good family (De muy buena familia)
One of the children from a family that appears to be high class but really is not, following his impulses that come from an unstoppable desire for luxury and easy money, ends up committing a murder. In this debauchery he loses all moral reference and nothing will stop him. THEMES: Family, Murder, Corruption, Money, Social…
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Pin pricks (Alfilerazos)
Remigio and his young wife have to emigrate from their country due to poverty. In the destination country, after great calamities and the loss of their children, they manage to make a fortune. They return to their village when they are older to invest their money into social and philanthropic works. But the generosity of…
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Triumphant Soul (Alma triunfante)
Every year, the happily married couple of Luis and Isabel celebrates Isabel and their daughter’s saint´s day, but this year fate prepares a drastic and tragic change in their lives: in a fatal accident, the child dies. The pain of losing her daughter drives Isabel mad, to the point that she moves into a mental…
