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Flor y canela (1988)

Flor y canela poster
Directed by
Luis Vélez
Genre
telenovela
Country
Mexico
Length
1 season, 100 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Marianela navigates love and hardship in a Mexican telenovela based on a Spanish story. She faces conflict with a villainous antagonist while caught in a romantic storyline.

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What happens

Flor y canela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa in 1988. It based on a story by the Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, adapted by María Teresa Calderón and Marissa Garrido and directed by Luis Vélez. Mariana Garza as Marianela, who later would be replaced by Daniela Leites, and Ernesto Laguardia starred as protagonists, while Mónica Miguel starred as the antagonist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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