# Rosalinda (1999)

> A woman who took the blame for a murder gives up her baby, and two decades later her freed mother's secret threatens the romance between her daughter and the victim's son.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/11802

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 80
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Delia Fiallo
- Network: Las Estrellas
- Cast: Thalia, Fernando Carrillo, Lupita Ferrer, Nora Salinas, Angélica María, Laura Zapata, Esther Rinaldi, Adriana Fonseca
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202200/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melodramatic, sentimental, tender, intense

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with a middling audience rating on a small voter base; the melodrama is valued for its emotional pull and familiar soap conventions.

## Synopsis

Rosalinda (1999) is a Mexican telenovela created by Delia Fiallo for Las Estrellas, a single-season run of eighty forty-five-minute episodes. Thalia plays Rosalinda, a young woman raised without knowing her true parentage, and Fernando Carrillo plays Fernando, the son of a man who was killed. The engine of the series is a hidden sacrifice: a woman serves a sentence for a murder she did not commit, gives her baby to her sister to raise, and returns after twenty years hoping to reclaim her place in her daughter's life. Each episode builds the emotional stakes through heightened confrontations, secret identities, and family feuds as the two young people grow close despite the history between their families. The storytelling is classic soap opera: a self-contained arc of reversals and revelations stretched across one continuous season, with dramatic close-ups, sweeping melodrama, and a fervent emotional register. Its tone is sentimental and tender, with a strong focus on maternal love and the weight of the past. Fans of Yo soy Betty, la fea, Marimar and Corazon salvaje will find resonance in its blend of romance, betrayal and family secrets. The series is a Televisa production with a 1990s broadcast tradition and a Latin American sensibility throughout.

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