Esmeralda (1997)

Genre

telenovela

Country

Mexico

Length

1 season, 137 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 178 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A blind peasant woman named Esmeralda finds love and faces family secrets in a Mexican village. The story follows her struggles with prejudice and her connection to a wealthy man.

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What happens

Esmeralda is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía for Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of the 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of the same name, written by Delia Fiallo. It stars Leticia Calderón, Fernando Colunga, Enrique Lizalde, Laura Zapata, Salvador Pineda and Ignacio López Tarso. On Monday, May 5, 1997, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Esmeralda weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing Mujer, casos de la vida real. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, November 14, 1997 with Desencuentro replacing it the following Monday. It was the first collaboration between Fernando Colunga and Juan Pablo Gamboa, who would both later work in La usurpadora (1998), which is also a production of Mejia. In the United States, it was first broadcast on Univision from December 15, 1997 to July 9, 1998. In 1998 it was named Best Telenovela of the Year by the TVyNovelas Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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