El Último Matrimonio Feliz
| El Último Matrimonio Feliz | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Telenovela |
| Created by | Adriana Suarez & Pedro Rozo |
| Country of origin | Colombia |
| No. of episodes | 240 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Silvana Orlandelli |
| Running time | 20-25 minutes |
| Distributor | RCN |
| Release | |
| Original network | Canal RCN |
| Original release | January 21, 2008 – April 22, 2009 |
| External links | |
| www |
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El Ultimo Matrimonio Feliz is a Colombian telenovela aired since January 21, 2008 on Colombian network RCN. It has a unique format among the current aired telenovelas in Colombia because of its ensemble cast. The telenovela is in top three of the most viewed shows in Colombia on the first half of 2008 season.
The program follows the story of the lives of five women who are undergoing different kinds of marital crises.
The first one to be introduced is Antonia Palacios, a beautiful middle-aged woman: the best saleswoman in Colombian real state company Grupo Inmobiliario, she is overloaded with work by her boss Manuel Gomez (Jorge Cao), a proud, avaricious and rich company manager with few scruples. The situation leads her to neglect her relationship with her husband Patricio and their teen daughter, Adelaida. After Adelaida is run over by a car, pretty much because Antonia had no time to pick her up, Antonia decides to establish her own company, En Casa, whose organization would allow women to work without forcing them to give up their family lives. Antonia and Manuel's middle-aged secretary, Margot Alvarez, also joins Antonia's company, meaning to escape Manuel's slavedriver work methods, meanwhile dealing with singlehandedly supporting her teenage children, Cesar David and Jenny. Margot's husband Armando, a taxi driver, feels that his love for her has died and leaves her for a younger woman, despite their precarious economical situation.
Antonia tells her hairdresser that she is hiring for her new company, and there she meets Barbara Mantilla (Valerie Dominguez). Barbara is desperate to find a job to gain economic independence and thus escape her abusive husband, Jesus, and her mother-in-law, Matilde. Due to Jesus' dependence on his mother, they have been forced to live with her for years: Matilde believes Barbara is undeserving of her son's affection, conducting covert smear campaigns against the young woman so that Jesus will eventually leave her (like indirectly affirming that Barbara's choice in clothing means that she is displaying herself for other men), most often resulting in Jesus believing his mother and beating Barbara viciously so that she will 'learn'. At the same time, Jesus is extremely (and possessively) attached to Barbara and cannot conceive losing her, leading to his seeking her forgiveness after each beating. This cycle has repeated itself over and over for years, making Barbara incapable of studying, holding a job or even leaving the house without somehow exciting a violent outburst of jealousy from her husband. Despite Barbara having no experience in real estate, Antonia decides to hire her.
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