''Rosario'' () is a 2013 Spanish-language

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produced by

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in collaboration with

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-based

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network

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. It is an original story written by Alex Haddad. The production started on July 31, 2012. On April 26, 2012, it was confirmed that Alex Haddad would write ''Rosario''. On July 24, it was confirmed that

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will make her acting debut. Both

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and

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will star as the antagonists.

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and

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will star as the main protagonists.

Plot

A beautiful and intelligent young woman named Rosario (

) falls in love with her boss, Alejandro (

), a prominent lawyer twenty-one years older than she. Rosario does not know that Alejandro is the same man whose mother, Magdalena (

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), was engaged to marry twenty-one years ago; Magdalena has kept her romance with Alejandro in secret. In the past, Alejandro broke his engagement to Magdalena on learning that she had become pregnant with Marcos (

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) as a result of rape. Alejandro, convinced that he could never accept, nor love, a creature that was begotten by his worst enemy decides to abandon it. The irony is that years later that child, Rosario, would become the great love of his life. The love of a young woman for the man she should never have fallen in love with; the love of a man towards the woman he swore he could never love; and the conflict of a mother when she meets the man she was about to marry and who is currently her daughter's boyfriend.

Cast

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as Rosario Pérez *

as Alejandro Montalbán *

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as Esteban Martínez *

as Priscila Pavón *

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as Magdalena Pérez *

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as Daniel Carvajal *

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as Regina Montalbán *

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as Teresa Martínez *

as Sandra Díaz *Rodrigo Vidal as Padre Bernardo *

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as Griselda *Anna Silvetti as Caridad Chávez *

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as Antonia *

as Fabiana *

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as Vicente *Alberto Salaberri as Jeronimo Guerra * Liliana Rodriguez as Ofilia Elsa *

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as Cecilia Garza * Sandra Itzel as Barbara Montalbán *

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as Silvia Villalobos *

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as Ignacio "Nacho" Gómez *Christina Mason as Misericordia "Merci" *Sergio Reynoso as Manuel Pérez *Beatriz Monroy as Matilde *Carlos Garin as Guillermo Gómez *Juan Jiménez as Felipe *Fabiola Barinas as Zulema Torres *

as Marcos Miranda *Osvaldo Strongoli as Gregorio Giorgano * Lilimar Hernandez as Elenita *Samuel Sadovnik as Esteban Martínez Jr. *Nataniel Roman as Manny *Alberto Barros Jr. as the gardener *Melody Batule as Dr. Natalia *Luz Cordeiro as Sor Esperanza *Reinaldo Cruz as Renato Villalobos *Alexander Estrella as Beto *Shanik Hughes as Cynthia *Ramon Morell as Dr. Lozada *Jorge Luis Portales as Matias *Elioret Silva as Detective Evora *Soledad Esponda as Mariana *Eslover Sanchez-Baquero as David (Fabiana's producer) *Victoria Zapata as Señora Silvestre *

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as Cristina *Nadia Escobar as Carmencita

International release

References

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