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El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar (1988)

El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar poster
Original title
El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar
Genre
telenovela
Country
Mexico
Length
1 season, 196 episodes
Rated
B-15
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in colonial Mexico is burned at the stake for witchcraft. In modern times, a young girl has nightmares about being burned alive and learns she is the reincarnation of that woman. She sets out to discover why she keeps having the same dream.

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What happens

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar (English title: The Strange Return of Diana Salazar) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez for Televisa in 1988. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics. The telenovela first begins in Zacatecas, New Spain in 1640 and later transitions to Mexico City in 1988, in which a woman accused of witchcraft and burned by the Holy Inquisition, reincarnates into a young girl who seeks to find the reason for her constant nightmare of being burned at the stake. The series stars Lucía Méndez, Jorge Martínez, Alejandro Camacho and Alma Muriel. Tlnovelas aired a rerun of the telenovela from January 27, 2020 through May 29, 2020. As of December 29, 2020, the series is available to stream on Blim TV. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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