Etiqueta: Family
-
The Suspicious Virtue (La virtud sospechosa)
The Suspicious Virtue takes place in a villa where Emilia arrives after marrying a marquis. The Marquis’ family believes Emilia is being opportunistic, but Rosaura -the Marquis’ niece- who is a kindhearted young woman, dearly appreciates Emilia. The conflict starts when Manolo Velez, the counterpoint of Rosaura’s character, shows young Rosaura which of Emilia’s actions are honest…
-
The school of princesses (La escuela de las princesas)
In the imaginary Kingdom of Alfania, Princess Constanza is destined to marry Prince Alberto, heir to the throne of Suabia’s Kingdom. However, she loves Duke Alejandro, but her sister Princess Felicity is the one who will marry Alejandro, who accepts her. When Constanza and Alberto start knowing each other, they will fall in love but…
-
Men’s honor (La honra de los hombres)
A young single woman accepts to raise with her boyfriend her sister’s illegitimate son. The sister’s husband, a fisherman, comes back after the fishing season. THEMES: Marriage, Siblings, Maternity Social Relations, Family, Adultery, Infidelity, Sex, Love GENRE: Drama, Melodrama, Family Melodrama RELEVANT FACTS: Intense and emotional play from Benavente taken to cinema in Argentina by…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Adoration (Adoración)
A scream, a shot gun… Eulalia has killed her husband Isidoro after a violent argument. Rosendo, who is deeply in love with her, pleads guilty of the crime to protect her. Finally, Eulalia confesses her crime to her children and declares that all Rosendo did was to help her, preparing everything to make it look…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Field of ermine (Campo de armiño)
Doña Irene, Marquise of Montalbán, fosters Gerardo, supposedly the son of her brother and a commoner woman. However, she discovers through some letters that everything is a lie and expels him. Gerardo, disconsolate and fearful of returning with his mother, returns to the Marquise. Finally, despite everything she opens her doors in proof of compassion…
