Marimar (Mexican TV series)

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show_name = Marimar


caption = The official Marimar DVD.
format = Telenovela, Drama, Romance
picture_format = 480i SDTV
runtime = 45 minutes
creator = Televisa
original story = Inés Rodena
director = Beatriz Sheridan
executive_producer = Angelli Nesma Medina
starring = Thalía
Eduardo Capetillo
theme_music_composer = Paco Navarette, Viviana Pimstein
opentheme = "Marimar" - Thalía
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country = flagicon|Mexico Mexico
language = Spanish
network =
first_aired = 1994
last_aired =
num_episodes = 160
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"Marimar" is a Mexican TV telenovela that was originally broadcast in 1994 on Televisa. Marimar is a remake of the telenovela "La venganza", which aired on Televisa in 1977 and starred Helena Rojo and Enrique Lizalde.

It is very popular in Latin America, Brazil, the United States, among French Overseas Network viewers in the French overseas departments and territories and Portuguese-speaking countries (via Brazil) in Africa and one of the most viewed soap opera in the Philippines and Indonesia. According to the daily "Ivoir 'Soir", "At 7.30 p.m. precisely, "Marimar" begins and life grinds to a halt in Côte d'Ivoire." Singer Thalía is the soap's major star.

Main cast

* Thalía as María del Mar "MariMar" Aldama Pérez alias "Bella Aldama"/Lupita Perez
* Eduardo Capetillo as Sergio Santibáñez
* Chantal Andere as Angélica de Santibáñez
* Alfonso Iturralde as Renato Santibáñez

upporting cast

* Miguel Palmer as Gustavo Aldama
* Pituka de Foronda as Tía Esperanza
* Ada Carrasco as Mamá Cruz
* Tito Guízar as Papá Pancho
* René Muñoz as Padre Porres
* Marisol Santacruz as Monica
* Ricardo Blume as Fernando Montenegro
* Guillermo García Cantú as Bernando Duarte
* Frances Ondiviela as Brenda Icaza
* Amairani as Natalia Montenegro
* Patricia Navidad as Isabel
* Fernando Colunga as Adrian Rosales

toryline

Marimar is a poor young innocent girl who lives with her grandparents in a beach by the ocean. She then falls in love with Sergio, a son of a wealthy man. Sergio then agrees to marry Marimar despite his father and stepmother's disapproval but along the way he falls deeply in love with her.

Sergio's stepmother Angelica despises Marimar because of her innocence and does not know the world of high society. Angelica constantly embarrasses Marimar, often demeaning her worth as an individual. Sergio gets angry so he decides to go away and earn money to take Marimar away from his father's house, leaving Marimar safe from Angelica's wrath. Angelica then frames Marimar by telling the cops that she stole a bracelet from her sending Marimar to prison. While Marimar is in prison Angelica sends one of her servants, Nicandro, to burn her grandparents' little hut, killing her grandparents in the process. Then, Angelica forges Sergio's writing and writes a letter to Marimar stating that he wants nothing to do with her and that he never loved her. All this and the impact of her grandparents’ deaths change her and get her on the road to revenge.

Marimar then moves from her hometown "San Martin de la Costa" to Mexico City with Padre Porres and works to get back on track. While on the road she meets her biological father without him or her knowing about it. He teaches her how to read, write, speak eloquently, and dress elegantly.

After the new, improved Marimar is ready to face society, her biological father decides to take her to the Opera where she bumps into Sergio, and Marimar's plan for revenge begins. Fueled by anger, Marimar (assuming the identity of "Bella" and denying to Sergio and other people that she is Marimar) seduces Segio constantly and then rejects his advances to hurt him and at the same time strips Sergio's father and stepmother Angelica of their wealth. Marimar buys out the Santibáñez house and embarrasses Angelica the way she embarrassed Marimar before. As Sergio divorces Marimar and gets ready to marry his childhood friend Innocencia, Marimar plans on breaking them up. Secretly, Sergio is still in love with Marimar.

Angelica then gets into a car accident and later dies due to her burn injuries, as her last wish, she wants Marimar burned alive in her house. Innocencia finds out that Sergio has been visiting Marimar and even tried to go to Marimar's house. The pregnant Innocencia falls and taken to the hospital where she has her baby where she is subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumor. Marimar decides to forget about Sergio by falling in love with another man who is an engineer. Innocencia then has brain surgery and, ashamed of all she has done, lets Marimar marry Sergio. They finally marry and live happily ever after.

Philippine remake

"MariMar" was the 2007 remake by GMA Network, a television network in the Philippines, starring Marian Rivera as Marimar, Dingdong Dantes as Sergio, and Katrina Halili as Angelika. The Philippine remake was a huge hit in Metropolitan Manila and all-over the Philippines.