Servers

Eterna mártir

1937 104 min ★ 6.3 Drama

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 ...

Writer: Juan Orol Director: Juan Orol

Cast

Consuelo Moreno Consuelo Moreno Griselda
Juan José Martínez Casado Juan José Martínez Casado Fernando Molina
Mary Carrillo Mary Carrillo Paulina
Antonio Liceága Antonio Liceága Carlitos
Adria Delhort Adria Delhort Alcira
Manuel Noriega Manuel Noriega Jaime
Chucho Monge Chucho Monge Pedro Sierra
Manuel Rivas Avila Manuel Rivas Avila Alfredo
Roberto Soto Mejía Roberto Soto Mejía Victor
Mercedes Moreno Mercedes Moreno Susana
Clementina Morín Clementina Morín Señora Molina
Alfonso Parra Alfonso Parra Don Carlos Mejía