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Eterna mártir (1937)

Eterna mártir (1937)

Drama
Release Date: 1937, October 28
Directors: Juan Orol
Countries: Mexico
Production: Aspa Films, Aspa Films
Cast: Mary Carrillo, Juan José Martínez Casado, Manuel Noriega, Ricardo Avendaño, Adria Delhort, Carlos L. Cabello, Alfonso Parra, Consuelo Moreno, Antonio Liceága, Manuel Rivas Avila, Roberto Soto Mejía, Mercedes Moreno

Overview:

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 ...

Keywords:

mexico family drama mother