Cuna de lobos

Cuna de lobos
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Carlos Olmos
Directed by	Carlos Téllez
Creative director(s)	Javier Terrazas
Starring	Gonzalo Vega Diana Bracho Alejandro Camacho Rebecca Jones María Rubio
Music by	Pedro Plascencia
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	170
Production
Executive producer(s)	Carlos Téllez
Producer(s)	Rubén Piña
Production company(s)	Televisa
Release
Original network	Canal de las Estrellas
Original release	October 6, 1986 (1986-10-06) – June 5, 1987 (1987-06-05)
Chronology
Preceded by	Monte Calvario
Followed by	El precio de la fama

Cuna de Lobos (English title:Cradle of Wolves) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez for Televisa in 1986.^[1][2] The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico. It was also a hit in several foreign countries, including Brazil, the United States, Germany and Australia.

Diana Bracho and Gonzalo Vega starred as protagonists, while María Rubio starred as main antagonist, interpreting the evil "Catalina Creel". Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones starred as antagonists.

Synopsis

Catalina Creel (María Rubio), has an unconditional love for her son Alejandro (Alejandro Camacho) and for him is capable of murdering her own husband and anyone who stands in his way to wealth. For her part Vilma (Rebecca Jones) resort to deception and even theft of a baby, all to give an heir to her husband. Leonora (Diana Bracho) is the deceived woman who steals her son and tries to drive her crazy, while José Carlos (Gonzalo Vega) is the oldest son who bears the guilt of having hurt his stepmother in the eye.

Cast

Awards

Profile

The central character in Cuna de lobos is matriarch Catalina Creel, played by actress María Rubio, a villain in the grand dramatic tradition of Dynasty's Alexis Carrington, Dallas' J. R. Ewing, or Knots Landing's Abby Cunningham.

The main character is Leonora, played by Diana Bracho, who portrays the victim of the "wolves", only to "become" a "wolf" herself to seek revenge.

Catalina's unnatural devotion to her only son caused her to conceal a healthy eye behind the lie of blindness, commit a series of murders beginning with her own husband, Carlos (his crime was realizing how truly evil she was), and to participate in the abduction of a child to ensure her son's inheritance was confirmed.

Such is the impact of her performance, that soap opera's villain take her as a role model, and when a program parodies a soap opera, the main villain is usually based on her.

Popularity

Cuna de lobos was so popular in its native country that on the night of the final broadcast, the streets of Mexico City - infamously choked with traffic - were deserted as the locals were in their homes glued to their TV screens. It has been re-screened several times in the United States and Australia in recent years. A remake has been in talks for several years, with one finally surfacing in 2010.

DVD

The first DVD of Cuna de lobos came out in 2002. It was a single-disc DVD that contained the entire novela edited down to a little over 230 minutes. A second DVD release came on March 8, 2006. While it expanded the novela to over 11 hours played on three DVDs, the original instrumental music and soundtrack had been erased and substituted by new music. According to Televisa, this was due to a disagreement with Mexican actress and producer Carmen Salinas, who now owns the music rights after her deceased son Pedro Plascencia Salinas, producer of the music of the novela.

References

External links

• Cuna de lobos on IMDb
• Cuna de Lobos
• Beyond soap - BBC embraces villains, plot twists and Latin style of telenovela at The Guardian contains a significant mention of Cuna de Lobos