“The Rich Also Cry” was released in 1979 and immediately made a splash on Mexican television. Soviet viewers had to wait a long time for the premiere: first, “Slave Izaura” was shown on domestic TV, but in 1991 it was the turn of “The Rich …” The Russians discussed the plot even on the street, they were so captured by the “soap opera”.
And there was something to discuss: the insidious Irma tried to kill her stepdaughter Marianna, who inherited the ranch of her deceased father. The beauty, played by Veronica Castro, had to flee to Mexico City, where fate brought her together with Luis Alberto. But the hero had bad habits and a sticky cousin, Esther de Salvatierra, who dreamed of marrying him. All this did not prevent the main characters from becoming sympathetic to each other, and even when Esther accused Louis of rape, and then announced that she was pregnant from him, Marianne firmly believed in the purity of the man.
Of course, the killer made a mistake and killed not the heroine of Castro, but her friend, Esther died, freeing the way for her rival, but Irma was arrested. Marianna found out regarding the inheritance, she and Luis Alberto got married, and they would have lived happily ever following if the producers had not conceived the second part of the melodrama “When a Son is Given” …
