Etiqueta: Maternity
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
