Eterna mártir

Story

Synopsis

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 ...

Director

Juan Orol

Writers

Juan Orol

Language

Spanish; Castilian

Country

Mexico

Release date

28 October 1937

Ensemble

Cast

• Consuelo Moreno

  Griselda

• 

  Juan José Martínez Casado

  Fernando Molina

• 

  Mary Carrillo

  Paulina

• Antonio Liceága

  Carlitos

• Adria Delhort

  Alcira

• 

  Manuel Noriega

  Jaime

• Chucho Monge

  Pedro Sierra

• Manuel Rivas Avila

  Alfredo

• Roberto Soto Mejía

  Victor

• Mercedes Moreno

  Susana

• Clementina Morín

  Señora Molina

• Alfonso Parra

  Don Carlos Mejía