Etiqueta: Love
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Lady and Mistress (Dueña y señora)
A convoluted love story Fernando is a young man from wealthy family origins who has fallen in love with Toña, the beautiful family’s housekeeper. Their passion leads to the birth of a child. However, Fernando gives in to the family pressure and marries Laura, a girl of his same social status. She convinces Toña to…
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The Famous Carballeira (El famoso Carballeira)
An aristocrat feels forced to marry a businessman. Setting aside social classes differences that draw them apart, his behavior induces her to start seeing him differently. THEMES: Love, Social Class, Marriage, Business, Social climbing, Seduction, High Class, Middle Class, Money, Family, Couples, Society GENRE: Dramedy, Romantic RELEVANT FACTS: The Famous Carballeira is one…
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The Chicken Thief (El ladrón de gallinas)
This story is about a famous female sculptor who gives shelter to a ragged man and starts taking care of him. Later, she discovers that she is starting to fall in love with the man. THEMES: Love, Impossible Love, Art, Social Class GENRE: Comedy RELEVANT FACTS: In 1954, in Mexico, the story…
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Nearby music (Música cercana)
Arriving to the old age, Alfredo, a widower and an important financer who is interested in the weaponry industry, wants to mend the mistakes of his youth, like the rape of his maid, Lorenza, or the cold relationship with his children, Sandra and Javier. It turns out it is more difficult than he thought, especially…
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The mule driver’s song (El cantar del arriero)
Blas is the owner of an inn. He is very old and has a daughter, Mariblanca. He would like to see her getting married. Mariblanca has a boyfriend, Anselmo, who works at the inn. They are both very much in love, but Lorenzo, a mule driver that goes frequently to the inn, will do everything…
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The detonation (La detonación)
Mariano José de Larra, one of the writers of Spanish Romanticism, commits suicide after being abandoned by his lover, Dolores Armijo. The action takes place in the moment before the shooting that ends the life of the journalist and recreates the most relevant moments of his life: the intrigues and power struggles in which he…
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The weaver of dreams (La tejedora de sueños)
This recreation of Homer’s Odyssey relates the adventures of Penelope, loving wife of Ulysses, whose return from the Trojan War she is waiting for. Buero’s Penelope is not a self-sacrificing woman; now, she is taken the lead since she hates Helen and Ulysses because of the twenty years she has spent weaving and unweaving. Ulysses…
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Meninas (Las Meninas)
Set in the Court of Felipe IV, the story is centered on the figure of the painter Diego Velázquez, who is involved in various court intrigues due to the creation of his masterpiece "Las Meninas". A thriller fantasy about the life of the most outstanding painter of his time and the events that surround his life in…
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Almost a fairy tale (Casi un cuento de hadas)
The action is set in an 18th century royal court, where the kings and their two twin daughters live. One of the twins is Leticia, beautiful but dumb; the other, Laura, ugly but intelligent. When ungraceful and hunchback Prince Riquet arrives, the situation turns around. Riquet wants to conquer Leticia’s heart. Will she find love…
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Story of a Stairway (Historia de una escalera)
Capuetes and Montesco are neighbors! The whole action takes place in an apartment building occupied by humble workers, except Elvira and her father, who belong to a higher class social disposition. Elvira wants to marry Fernando, but he loves Carmina, and their love is mutual. Urbano, another neighbor, is also in love with Carmina. The…
