Cuna de lobos


Cuna de lobos is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez for Televisa, broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas.
The series, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico.
It was also a hit in several foreign countries, including Brazil, the United States, Germany and Australia.
Starring Gonzalo Vega, Diana Bracho, Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones.

Synopsis

To seize control of her husband's pharmaceutical empire, Catalina Creel de Larios decides to poison him.
Her plan backfires when she learns that in his will, he bequeathed the empire to the firstborn son of either of his children: Alejandro or José Carlos.
Vilma, Alejandro's wife, is infertile, so through deception, Alejandro impregnates Leonora Navarro.
The heir is born, and Alejandro takes him from Leonora to pass him off as Vilma's son, confining the former to a mental institution.
Leonora begins her revenge by seducing José Carlos to gain entry to the Larios mansion.

Cast

Main

Legacy

The central character in Cuna de lobos is Leonora, played by Diana Bracho, who portrays the victim of the "wolves", only to "become" a "she-wolf" herself to seek revenge.
The direct female counterpart to Leonora is Vilma, brought to life by Rebecca Jones, whose inability to conceive a child makes her the main trigger for the entire plot to begin.
The main antagonist is matriarch Catalina Creel, performed by actress María Rubio, a villain in the grand dramatic tradition of Dynasty's Alexis Carrington, Dallas' J. R. Ewing, or Knots Landing's Abby Cunningham.
Catalina's unnatural devotion to her only son caused her to conceal a healthy eye behind the lie of blindness, commit a series of murders, beginning with that of her own husband, Carlos, and to participate in the abduction of a child to ensure an inheritance.
Such was the impact of her performance that most soap opera villains take her as a role model and, when a program parodies a soap opera, the main villain is usually based on her.
Cuna de lobos was so popular in its native country that, on the night of the final broadcast, the streets of Mexico City were deserted, as the locals were in their homes glued to their TV screens.
It has been re-screened several times in the United States and Australia in recent years. A remake has been in talks for several years, with one finally surfacing in 2019.

DVD

The first DVD of Cuna de lobos came out in 2002. It was a single-disc DVD that contained the entire telenovela edited down to a little over 230 minutes.
A second DVD release came on March 8, 2006. While it expanded the telenovela to over 11 hours played on three DVDs, the original instrumental music and soundtrack had been erased and substituted by new music.
According to Televisa, this was due to a disagreement with Mexican actress and producer Carmen Salinas, who used to own the music rights after her deceased son Pedro Plascencia Salinas, producer of the music of the telenovela.