(2005) - Victoria Ruffo, César Évora
CAST
Victoria Ruffo .... María - main heroine
César Évora .... Esteban - main hero
Jacqueline Andere .... Alba - aunt of Esteban, villain
Mauricio Aspe .... Héctor - son of Maria and Esteban
Ana Layevska .... Estrella - daughter of Maria and Esteban
Miguel Ángel Biaggio .... Ángel - adoptive son of Esteban
Eduardo Capetillo .... Leonel - son of Patricia, the murdered woman
Sabine Moussier .... Fabiola - in love with Esteban, villain
Cecilia Gabriela .... Daniela - aunt of Ana Rosa
René Casados .... Bruno - husband of Fabiola
Margarita Isabel .... Carmela - aunt of Esteban
Martha Julia .... Ana Rosa - niece of Daniela, girlfriend of Esteban
Guillermo García Cantu .... Demetrio - husband of Daniela
Lorenzo de Rodas .... Servando - partner of Esteban
Sergio Mayer .... Carlos - son of Pulpo, villain
Ana Martín .... Socorro - mother of Lupita and Greco
José Luis Reséndez .... Greco - brother of Lupita, in love with Estrella
María Ríos .... Lupita - secretary, in love with Leonel
Carlos Bonavides .... Pulpo - father of Carlos
Arturo García Tenorio .... Davinci - father of Greco and Lupita
Irma Serrano .... Duquesa - owner of the restaurant, friend of Pulpo and Davinci
Patricia Reyes Spíndola .... Venturita - maid of Servando
Michelle Vieth .... Vivian - friend of Maria, in love with Hector
Montserrat Olivier .... Patricia - murdered woman, villain
Joaquín Cordero .... Padre Belisario - friend of Maria and of all San Román
Marcelo Buquet .... Gerardo Salgado - in love with Maria
Daniel Berlanga
Liza Willert .... Rebecca - housekeeper in San Román house
Marcial Casale
Arturo Muñoz
Ruben Morales .... Figueroa
Maria Luisa Alcala .... Fanny - in love with Pulpo
Mariana Karr - guard in the jail
Mario Casillas .... Dr. Ruben - doctor who treats Angel
Archy Lanfranco .... Luciano - attorney of Maria, in love with her
Óscar Morelli .... director of jail
Sérgio Jurado .... Investigador Muñoz
Ximena Herrera .... Alma - secretary, in love with Angel
German Gutiérrez
Alejandro Ruiz
Sebastian .... El Greñas
Santiago Hernández
Andrés Marquez .... El Panzas
Joustein Rounstsad .... El Huesos
Rocio Cardenas .... Angelica - in love with Hector
Sergio Catalán .... Darío Marinelli - crook who cheated Hector out of money
Pilar Pellicer .... Sonia - rich woman, lover of Carlos
Diana Golden .... interpreted Patricia in the cabin
Alberto Chávez .... Valentín
Writing credits
Arturo Moya Grau (original story)
Liliana Abud (adaptation)
Julián Aguilar(adaptation)
Mauricio Aridjis (adaptation)
Song: Viveme
Singing: Laura Pausini
Song: "De mañana yo no se"
Singing: Tiziano Ferro
Song: "Amor del bueno"
Singing: Reyli
Set decoration
Miguel Ángel Medina
Original music
Jorge Avendaño
Cheifs of production
Beatriz de Anda
Alfonso López
Cinematography by
Jesus Najera Saro
Lino A. Gama Esquinca (on location)
Directed by
Erik Morales
Jorge Edgar Ramirez
Produced by
Salvador Mejía
Televisa
Trivia
"La Madrastra" is a remake of:
1 version: telenovela "La Madrastra" (1981, Chile, UCTV) with Jael Unger and Walter Kliche
2 version: telenovela "Vivir un poco"
3 version: telenovela "Para toda la vida"
Maria is sentenced to life in prison after being wrongfully accused of the murder of her friend. Her husband who believes she killed her friend decides to make his kids grow up thinking that she is dead. 20 years later Maria is released for good conduct. She returns to her husband and askes him to re-marry her so that she could be near her kids. He agrees. But her two kids at first see her as an imposter who wants to take the place of their late mom. But they soon begin to like her and her husband falls in love with her again. But now she must choose between telling her kids the truth and having the family she always wanted or to find the real killer of her friend.
