Salvador Sánchez
Birthday: Born in 1943-10-28 in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
Deathday: Alive
Alfredo Salvador Sánchez Bolaños (born October 28th, 1943) is a Mexican actor and director. He was one of the most relevant actors among those who renewed the list of interpreters of Mexican cinema at the beginning of the seventies. Since then, he has stood out in films such as The devil fell from glory (Cayó de la gloria el diablo, .1971), The bump (La choca, 1973), The heist (El apando, 1975), Canoa (1975), Las Poquianchis (1976), Los albañiles (1976), Under the shrapnel (Bajo la metralla, 1983), Motel (1983), Journey to Paradise (1985), Going for a nut (1986), Fire Angel (1991), Lady at night (1993), Leap into the void (1994), Natural death (1996) , Only once (2000) and Herod's law (2000). He directed Pedro Páramo in 1981. Deserving of various distinctions for his acting work in film, including two Diosas de Plata, he has also developed an outstanding theatrical career and has participated repeatedly on television.
TV Credits
La Hora Marcada
Character: (Varios)
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón....
Mujeres asesinas
Character: Don Ramón
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind....
Malverde: El Santo Patrón
Character: Ramon
Jesús Juárez overcomes his childhood as an orphan to become a Robin Hood like hero During the Mexican Revolution, but can't forget his first love - Isabel....
Más Allá de Tí
Character: Crisanto Pescador
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Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Character: Consejo Serratos
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Lo imperdonable
Character: Crescencio Álvarez
Martín (Iván Sánchez) hurries to Mina Escondida after getting an urgent letter from his brother begging to be rescued from the hell in which he's living. On arrival, Martin despairs upon finding out that Demetrio (Pablo Montero), his brother, has committed suicide. His sorrow is transformed into hatred and a thirst for vengeance against the woman who caused his brother suffering and brought him to death....
El Noveno mandamiento
Character: Andrés Roldán Martínez
El Noveno Mandamiento is a Mexican soap opera produced by Lucero Suárez in 2001. As of June 24th, 2013, Unimas is broadcasting 2 hour episodes of this soap opera....
La Dueña
Character: Macario Robles
La Dueña (Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000....
40 y 20
Character: Don Doroteo
A comedy series about a divorced dad who likes younger women, and his son who likes older women....
Mi pecado
Character: Padre Matías Quiroga
Mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009. Starring Maite Perroni, Eugenio Siller and as adult protagonist Daniela Castro who is also the main villain. Mi pecado tells the story of young lovers Lucrecia and Julián, who are torn apart by their feuding families following the tragic death of Lucrecia's brother César when the three are just children....
Alegrijes y Rebujos
Character: Asunción Yunque "Chon"
Alegrijes y Rebujos is a Mexican soap opera which became very popular with children and adults in 2003 and 2004. The child actors came from the reality show Código F.A.M.A.. The first place winner, Miguel Martinez, earned the lead role. He shared the spotlight with the other finalists María Chacón, Diego González, Allisson Lozano, Michelle Álvarez, Nora Cano, Jesús Zavala and Tony Cobian....
El pecado de Oyuki
Character: Yutaka Ogino
El Pecado de Oyuki is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1988. It was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, who also adapted the screenplay for television. The original comic book series was in the style of the foto-novela. For the role of Oyuki, the photographer selected the Mexican Japanese Sachiko Tsuchiya. Born in Tepic, Nayarit, she became the most recognizable Asian Mexican of her time. The telenovela was shown in the United States in 1988 through Univision. Dulché...
Movie Credits
Ojitos mentirosos
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¡Que viva México!
Character: Notario / Don Florencio
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance....
Amor que mata
Character: Don Raúl
Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a toll on his life. It seems as though the phantoms of the past are never going to let him go....
Emiliano Zapata
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This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution....
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Charro cantor / Solís
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then......
Caminando pasos... caminando
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In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group....
1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil
Character: Peasant
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda....
One Man’s War
Character: Ramírez
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder....
Pedro Páramo
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The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife....
Ángel de fuego
Character: Rito
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods....
Jóvenes delincuentes
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A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free....
Maria of My Heart
Character: Chava
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event....
Difficult Days
Character: Diputado Gabriel Aguirre
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants....
File of Attempted Murder
Character: Antonio Villacencio
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz....
Under the Shrapnel
Character: Tomas
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him....
Drizzle
Character: Indígena
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him....
Motel
Character: Julián Vargas, Detective
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel....
Between Shadows
Character: Narciso
In an attempt to solve their marriage problems, Eric and Mari take a trip to the Mexican southeast, but she disappears under mysterious circumstances. On his way back to Mexico City, Eric meets Narciso, a mysterious man, and gives him a ride. Eric describes a series of events which finally lead him to a revelation about the time he shared with Mari....
La Choca
Character: Audias
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them....
The Beast
Character: Don Gerardo
Pipo, Pau and Mau, three youngsters who spend their time shooting video pranks, visit a distant town where a beast is attacking its residents. Upon arrival, the pranksters will discover that the beast is very different than they thought....
Crimen y castigo
Character: (uncredited)
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective....
Furia en la sangre
Character:
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Old Gringo
Character: Floreal
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run....
El jardín de la paz
Character:
An American's couple who live peaceful and quiet in their summer house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, see how their peace and security is broken when a band of delinquents break inside their home violently with the only purpose of extortion....
No One Will Love You Like I Do
Character:
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan....
La Generala
Character: Jesús
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction....
Dos judiciales en aprietos
Character:
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La yegua colorada
Character:
Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of....
Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
Character:
Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures....
Tequila, historia de una pasión
Character: Vicente
Tequila in Mexico, 1940s: Honor and dignity come first here. The town is protecting a certain secret. In spite of all prohibitions, Antonio, a respected young landowner, has an affair with Lola, his uncle Vicent's young wife. She is sexually dissatisfied from her older husband. Also butler's young daughter Milagros is in love with him and sees him when he leaves Lola's room after they had sex. She threatens him to disclose the secret....
La fuerza bruta
Character:
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Abuelita de Bakman
Character:
A novelist cannot create new and original stories, his wife suggests that he go out and write about the people he sees as he passes by....
Mujer de cabaret
Character:
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a few months he loses all family's fortune. Alicia decided to come back to that cabaret and sing again. The cabaret owner Don Lalo wants her to be his love and his girlfriend Elena finds out about it. She kills him and makes people and police think that Alicia is guilty for this murder. Being imprisoned Alicia must find a prove that she's innocent. And...
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Character:
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind....
El último narco
Character:
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Un ángel para los diablillos
Character: Jefe de Policía
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Salto al vacío
Character:
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La leyenda del escorpión
Character:
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Diplomatic Immunity
Character: Colonel Hernández
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."...
Dama de Noche
Character: Diego
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corpse of her boyfriend who died because of a heart attack while they made love...
Solamente una vez
Character:
Mexican feature film...
A Breakfast Chronicle
Character: Pedro
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind....
El fantasma de la coca
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Héroes de la seguridad
Character:
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Jack's Law
Character: Joker
Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term for a crime he did not commit, Jack returns to the streets with a vengeance against crime, and takes to vigilantism....
De muerte natural
Character:
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood....
Las asesinas del panadero
Character:
Mexican feature film...
The Exorcist
Character: Señor Ramirez
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises....
Under the Volcano
Character: Chief of Stockyards
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey an...
The Food of Fear
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The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street....
Frida Still Life
Character: David Alfaro Siqueiros
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism....
The House in the South
Character: Genaro
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century....
Letters from Marusia
Character: Sebastián
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts....
The Mexican
Character: Gunsmith
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border....
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Character: Witness
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story....
Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
Character:
Heroic Mexican wrestler duo Octagon and Mascara Sagrado take on a bevvy of sexy female catburglars led by Lina Santos...
Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
Character:
A Colombian gangster buys modern weapons to re-sell them to guerrillas of various countries, under the patronage of the Mafia. Interpol is after Gallardo, the Mexican provider, with the help of two masked wrestlers, Octagon and Atlantis....
The Heist
Character: Albino
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation....
Acorazado
Character: Alacran
Silverio Palacios, 40, a failed union worker from Veracruz, decides to turn his life around. Tired of earning his money panhandling in the streets, he decides to follow up on a plan that’s been on his friend and union leader's, Alacrán, mind for the longest time. He transforms his old taxi into a makeshift raft and set sail towards Miami to find success in the United States posing as a Cuban immigrant....
Salvador
Character: Human Rights Leader
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children....
Herod's Law
Character: Pek
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals....
El Infierno
Character: El Padrino
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive....
Charm School
Character: Monseñor
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy....
Loving Ghosts
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The Eve
Character: Villegas
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered....
Viaje al paraíso
Character: Bulmador
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong....
Perseguida
Character: Commander German Paino
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lo...
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
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It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience....
The Bricklayers
Character: Chapo Álvarez
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers....
The Mexican Ninja
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A criminal organization hires some ninjas to steal the formula for a new drug, described as cheaper and more powerful than cocaine. As it turns out, the industrialist who financed the research has taken elaborate steps to make sure that the new substance won´t fall into the wrong hands, and the ninjas find they have only succeeded in stealing half the formula. To please their disgruntled employers, the evil ninjas try to blackmail the industrialist into handing over the remaining half and it´s u...
Zapata en Chinameca
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Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata....
The Perfect Dictatorship
Character: Hombre X
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the...
The Recourse to the Method
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Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him,...
The Voice of a Dream
Character: Apolonio
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential....
Una buena forma de morir
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After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge....
The Mongolian Conspiracy
Character: Señor Liu
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy....
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Character: Juan Dolores
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals....
El elegido
Character: Don Liserio
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play....
Las Poquianchis
Character: Reportero
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis"....
With Fear in the Veins
Character: José
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes....
Collateral Damage
Character: Peddler
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini....
Angel River
Character: Toral
It's love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a beautiful, young blonde girl whose peaceful life on her parents' isolated ranch is permanently disrupted when she is abducted and raped by a drunken Mexican bandit. Later, she finds herself drawn to her tormentor and romance ensues....
Imperio de los Malditos
Character: Rutilo Morán
On the day of his first communion, the boy Honorato is orphaned because the mafia murders his parents. Before dying, the father recommends that the son defend himself against whoever tries to harm him, so that over time he becomes a bloodthirsty and sadistic gunman, always accompanied by the ghost of his father. His fame bears in the ears of Rutilo, the boss of the central supply, who hires him to avenge the death of his son. Honorato fulfills the mission with luxury of violence and becomes a tr...
Anyway, Juan is Your Name
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Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State....
El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
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Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film....
El vals sin fin
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The Master of Ballantrae
Character: El Chueco
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate....
Those Years
Character: Gen. Melchor Ocampo
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico...
Puras mentiras
Character: Luis Pérez Goya
Life is giving Benito the best stories for his first work without knowing what the end of this love story will be, which he writes and lives in his own flesh, hiding all reality and making this the best story of his life....