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El privilegio de amar (1998)

El privilegio de amar poster
Original title
El Privilegio de Amar
Directed by
Miguel Córcega
Genre
telenovela
Country
Mexico
Length
1 season, 155 episodes
Rated
13+
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 130 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A fashion designer searches for the daughter she abandoned years ago. The daughter is a model working in her fashion house who falls in love with the designer's stepson.

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What happens

El privilegio de amar (Literal English translation: The Privilege to Love, International English title: The Right to Love) is a Mexican television drama series broadcast by Canal de Las Estrellas. The series is based of 1985 Venezuelan drama series Cristal. Directed by Miguel Córcega and Mónica Miguel, it stars Adela Noriega, Helena Rojo, Andrés García, Enrique Rocha, René Strickler, Cynthia Klitbo, Nuria Bages and César Évora. It aired from July 27, 1998 to February 26, 1999, replacing La usurpadora and was replaced by Rosalinda. El privilegio de amar is the highest-rated television program in Mexico to date; it registered an average of 34.8 percent of TV audience. The telenovela received the TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela in 1999. The telenovela tells the story of Luciana, a fashion designer who begins searching for the daughter she abandoned years earlier, unaware that the girl is none other than Cristina, a model in Luciana's fashion house who has fallen in love with her stepson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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