''El derecho de nacer'' (English title:''The right to be born'') is a Mexican

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produced by

Ernesto Alonso Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "''El Señor Telenovela''" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the w ...

for

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in 1981. Based on the

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of the same name written by Félix B. Caignet adapted for TV by Fernanda Villeli and directed by

Raúl Araiza Raúl Araiza (; born Raúl Araiza Herrera on 14 November 1964) is a Mexican actor and television presenter. He studied drama in the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A m ...

.El Derecho de Nacer in Alma Latina
Retrieved January 1, 2015

Verónica Castro Verónica Castro (), full name Verónica Judith Sáinz Castro (born 19 October 1952), is a Mexican actress, singer, producer, former model and presenter. She started her career as a television actress, where she met comedian Manuel Valdés, fa ...

and

Sergio Jiménez Sergio Jiménez (December 17, 1937 – January 3, 2007), born in Mexico City, was a Mexican actor who became famous after portraying the character of ''El Gato'' in the film '' Los caifanes''. His last work was directing the telenovela ''La f ...

starred as protagonists,

Erika Buenfil Teresa de Jesús Buenfil López (; born November 23, 1964), commonly known as Erika Buenfil, is a Mexican actress, TV host and singer. She is best known for her lead roles in several successful telenovelas including ''Amor en Silencio'' (1988), ...

and

Humberto Zurita Humberto Zurita (, born September 2, 1954) is a Mexican actor, director and producer. Zurita, one of 10 siblings from Torreón, Coahuila, is best known as actor, director and producer of telenovelas. Acting career He made his first stage appea ...

starred as co-protagonist on their debut, while

Ignacio López Tarso Ignacio López López (born 15 January 1925), known professionally as Ignacio López Tarso, is a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He has acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was g ...

, Beatriz Castro and Malena Doria starred as main antagonists. With the participations of the first actresses María Rubio and

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Plot

The story begins as a young woman seeks counsel by her doctor after she is left pregnant and debating if she should have an abortion. Her doctor calms her and tells her that he wants to share a story with her before she makes her decision. The doctor's name is Alberto Limonta and he begins recounting the story of the Del Junco family..... Don Rafael Del Junco (Ignacio López Tarso) is the severe

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of a respected

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family and demands absolute obedience from his two daughters María Elena and Matilde (real-life sisters Verónica and Beatriz Castro) and his wife Dona Constancia. María Elena manages to have an affair with a traveling

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man named Alfredo Martinez, played by Salvador Pineda. Martinez abandons her after knowing that she is

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with his child. Don Rafael, in all of his fury sends María Elena and her

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nanny María Dolores (Socorro Avelar) into hiding to avoid any scandals to his family. The two women are kept prisoners by Bruno, the

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(Julio César Inbert), who is instructed by Don Rafael to kill the baby as soon as it is born. María Dolores manages to arrange the disappearance of the baby boy and instead flees to

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while the boy Albertico played by

's real-life son

Cristian Castro Christian Sáinz Valdés Castro (born 8 December 1974), known professionally as Cristian Castro or Cristian, is a Mexican pop singer. He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, and nephew of actors Ramón Valdés ...

. Albertico Limonta, who took the last name of Maria Dolores, knows nothing about the existence of María Elena. The storyline has Alberto going back to Veracruz as he takes a job as a resident at the city hospital. It is there where he meets a young girl Amelia, who falls in love with him, but refuses to marry when she learns that Alberto has a black mother. As Alberto decides not to reveal that Maria Dolores is not his real mother, Cristina, a hospital volunteer, played by Erika Buenfil falls in love with him. Cristina is the adopted and grown up daughter of Matilde, who happens to be Alberto's real life aunt. Alberto develops a relationship with the Del Junco family as Cristina introduces him to everyone. The Del Juncos', with exception of spiteful Matilde are taken by the young man. Maria Elena in fact, feels a special bond for her niece's boyfriend. Maria Elena is by then a nun living in a

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resigned a long time ago to never finding her son and her beloved nana. A dramatic turn of events happens when Don Rafael del Junco pays an unsuspecting Maria Dolores a visit after he is given an emergency

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by Alberto. The meeting of these two characters is the paramount event of the entire drama as Maria Dolores reveals to Don Rafael that Doctor Alberto Limonta, the blood donor is in fact the Del Junco heir sent to his death by his own grandfather. Don Rafael gets home and has a

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which leaves him immobilized and unable to speak. This ploy prologued the drama for months in which Alberto and Cristina's love story takes a secondary role to the quest by Don Rafael's desire and his inability to tell Maria Elena that Albertico is her son. Maria Elena, eventually meets Maria Dolores who reveals that she had to flee Veracruz to save the child. In a highly emotional episode, Maria Elena, and Maria Dolores tell Alberto the entire truth. Alberto instead of happiness feels sadness and resentment as he believes that Cristina is his first

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making them an unlikely pair to marry. It is then when Matilde plagued by remorse and sadness confesses to Cristina that she is adopted; hence, permitting the two to marry. Don Rafael now able to speak, wants Alberto to take the Del Junco name to which Alberto refuses and decides to keep Limonta instead as he had grown up with him.

Cast

as ''María Elena del Junco'' *

as ''Jorge Luis Armenteros'' *

as ''Don Rafael del Junco'' *

María Rubio María Rubio (September 21, 1934 – March 1, 2018) was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, ''Cuna de lobos ''Cuna de lobos'' (English: ''Cr ...

as ''Clemencia del Junco'' *

as ''Alberto Limonta'' *

Salvador Pineda Salvador Pineda Popoca (born June 16, 1952 in Huetamo, Michoacan, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, who has participated in over 20 Mexican telenovelas and Mexican movies, as well as two Hollywood low budget movies. Born to Mexican politician Salvado ...

as ''Alfredo Martínez'' *

as ''María Dolores Limonta'' *

as ''Isabel Cristina del Río'' *Beatriz Castro as ''Matilde del Junco'' *

as ''Alberto (child)'' *Malena Doria as ''Sor Julia'' *

Laura Flores Laura Aurora Flores Heras (born August 23, 1963) is a Mexican actress, hostess and singer. Biography Laura Flores had a hit single "El Alma No Tiene Color" ("The Soul Has No Color"), which was a duet with Marco Antonio Solís taken from the a ...

as ''Amelia Montero'' *Miguel Macía as ''Alejandro Sierra'' *Miguel Ángel Ferriz as ''Osvaldo Martínez'' *

Fernando Balzaretti Fernando Balzaretti (June 10, 1946 – September 5, 1998) was a Mexican actor. Career Balzaretti began his acting career in the 1960s and by the time of his death in 1998 had acted in at least 40 films, 21 telenovelas and 136 plays. He was ...

as ''Ricardo del Río'' *

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as'' Virginia'' *

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as ''Armando'' *Julio César Inbert as ''Bruno'' *Eduardo Liñán as ''Father Juan'' *Flor Trujillo as ''Magali'' *Adriana Lafan as ''Marina'' *Hector Saez as ''Ramón'' *Carlos Ignacio as ''Raúl'' *Roberto Antunez as ''Alfonso Cabrera'' *Martha Patricia as ''Asunción'' *Maristel Molina as ''Sor Amparo'' *Andaluz Russel as ''Lolita'' *José Luis Duvall as ''Salvador'' *Julio Monterde as ''Nicolás Montero'' *Rosalba Hernández as ''Nurse'' *Alberto Parra as ''Tony'' *Jorge del Campo as ''Pepe'' *Macario Álvarez as ''Lic. Álvarez'' *Fabio Ramírez as ''Uncle Pepe'' *Margarita de la O as ''Josefa'' *

Silvia Manríquez Silvia Manríquez (born January 27, 1953, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexicans, Mexican actress. She is known for her roles in telenovelas. Professional life Manriquez began her career in 1974, after she was named "El Rostro del Heraldo" by a ...

as ''Tete'' *Lorena Rivero as ''Gina'' *Carmen Rodríguez as ''Alma'' *Adrián Sotomayor as ''Adrián'' *Enrique Mazin as ''Doctor Jorge'' *Patricia Renteria as ''Rosita *Félix Santaella as ''Pedro Reyna *Norma Herrera as ''María *

Héctor Suárez Héctor Suárez Hernández (; 21 October 19382 June 2020) was a Mexican actor, comedian, director and also CTO of Hatch. He appeared in about a hundred films and television shows in a career that spanned 60 years. He was noted for satirizing tho ...

as ''Héctor *Aurora Medina as ''Lucía *Michel Castro as ''Alberto (newborn)'' *José Luis Llamas as ''Advisor in AA'' *María Belzares as ''Benita'' *Lili Garza as ''Invited'' *Beatriz Ornella as ''Invited'' *Melba Luna as ''Mercedes'' *Raquel Pankowsky as ''Cristina (mother)'' *Rigoberto Carmona as ''Waiter''

Other versions

Films * ''El derecho de nacer'' in 1952. Starring

Jorge Mistral Modesto Llosas Rosell (24 November 1920 – 20 April 1972) known professionally as Jorge Mistral was a Spanish film actor. During the 1940s, he became a star in films produced by CIFESA. In the 1950s, he lived and worked in México and ap ...

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and Martha Roth. * ''El derecho de nacer'' in 1966. Starring

Aurora Bautista Aurora Bautista Zúmel (15 October 1925 – 27 August 2012) was a Spanish film actress. Bautista was born in Valladolid, and died in Madrid, aged 86. Selected filmography *1948 '' Madness for Love'', by Juan de Orduña *1950 '' Pequeñece ...

Julio Alemán Julio Méndez Alemán (November 29, 1933 – April 11, 2012) was a Mexican actor.Maricruz Olivier María de la Cruz Olivier Obergh (September 19, 1933 – October 10, 1984), known professionally as Maricruz Olivier, was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theater. She is best remembered for starring in the 1959 version of the tele ...

. Telenovelas * '' El derecho de nacer'' in 1966. Starring María Teresa Rivas and

Enrique Rambal Enrique Rambal (8 May 1924 – 15 December 1971) was a Spanish-Mexican actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1952 and 1971. Enrique had married actresses Mercedes Borque and Lucy Gallardo. Selected filmography * '' The Martyr of ...

. * '' El derecho de nacer'' in 2001. Starring

Kate del Castillo Kate del Castillo Negrete Trillo () is a Mexican-American actress. At the age of 19, del Castillo became known for her lead role in the telenovela ''Muchachitas'' for Televisa in 1991. Afterwards, she continued her career in film and television ...

and

Saúl Lisazo Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi (; born June 1, 1956 in Los Toldos, province of Buenos Aires in Argentina) is an Argentine actor and ex-footballer. Biography Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi is one of 6 siblings: Maria, Fernanda, Araceli, Alejandro, Ma ...

Awards

References

External links

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Russian telenovela site
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