Eterna mártir (1937)
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
Director: Juan Orol
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Consuelo Moreno as Griselda |
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Juan José Martínez Casado as Fernando Molina |
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Mary Carrillo as Paulina |
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Antonio Liceága as Carlitos |
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Adria Delhort as Alcira |
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Manuel Noriega as Jaime |
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Chucho Monge as Pedro Sierra |
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Manuel Rivas Avila as Alfredo |
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Roberto Soto Mejía as Victor |
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Mercedes Moreno as Susana |
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Clementina Morín as Señora Molina |
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Alfonso Parra as Don Carlos Mejía |
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Ricardo Avendaño as Don Gabriel |
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Timoteo Bolio as Chin José |
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Carlos L. Cabello as Secretario |
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José Pulido as |
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Juan Orol as Narrator |
| Camera | Raúl Martínez Solares | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Tomás Ponce Reyes | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Juan Orol | Writer |
| Editing | José Marino | Editor |
| Production | Juan Orol | Producer |
| Art | Mariano Rodríguez Granada | Production Design |
| Editing | Juan Orol | Editor |
| Directing | Juan Orol | Director |