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Imperio de Cristal

Imperio de cristal
Genre Telenovela
Romance
Drama
Created by Alejandro Camacho
Rebecca Jones
Written by Jaime García Estrada
Orlando Merino
Marissa Garrido
Directed by Claudio Reyes Rubio
Juan Carlos Muñoz
Starring Rebecca Jones
Ari Telch
Alejandro Camacho
María Rubio
Ignacio López Tarso
Kate del Castillo
Antonio De Carlo
Theme music composer Bebu Silvetti
Opening theme Imperio de cristal
Country of origin Mexico
Original language(s) Spanish
No. of episodes 124 (Original version)
62 (International version)
Production
Executive producer(s) Carlos Sotomayor
Producer(s) Rafael Urióstegui
Location(s) Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
Cinematography Carlos Guerra Villareal
Running time 21-22 minutes
Production company(s) Televisa
Distributor Televisa
Release
Original network Canal de las Estrellas
Picture format SDTV (480i 4:3)
PAL (576i 4:3)
PAL-B (Analog VHF)
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Datasat Digital 5.1
Sony Digital 5.1
Original release August 29, 1994 – February 17, 1995
Chronology
Preceded by Marimar
Followed by Si Dios me quita la vida
Related shows Empire (1995)
Quiero amarte (2013)

Imperio de cristal (English title: Crystal Empire) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1994.

Rebecca Jones and Ari Telch starred as protagonists, while Alejandro Camacho and María Rubio starred as antagonists. Kate del Castillo, Germán Gutiérrez, Cecilia Gabriela, Ignacio López Tarso and Emilia Carranza starred as stellar performances.

Sofía Vidal has been having nightmares all her childhood with her mother's death. Now as an adult, the dreams are with Katia, her daughter. One day she assists with her husband Uriel and Katia to a party at the Lombardos' mansion.

Cesar, the headship of the Lombardo family and company (the powerful crystal entrepreneurs), finds out that Sofia is the daughter of his impossible love. Elena, who died tragically in an accident, when Sofia was still a child. Cesar, without Sofia knowing it, decides to protect her because of Elena's memory, which he cherishes still.

Cesar is married in second nuptials to Livia Arizmedi, a former actress who dreams on recovering her career. Sofia's appearance seriously worries Livia, considering her an intruder who could displace her, just as Elena would have done in the past.

Livia, who hides a terrible secret that involves Sophia, plots against her, trying to separate her from the family. For this, she convinces a friend of her, Renata, to seduce Uriel and cheat on Sofia. Julio Lombardo is the third of Cesar's children and the black sheep of the family. After studying in Italy he returns to Mexico in order to marry his childhood sweetheart, Elisa.

Augusto, Cesar's second children, is obsessed by Sofia and is determined to taking her at any price, knowing besides that it's the way for his father to name as his successor in the enterprises Augusto does everything to end Sofia's marriage, until finally Uriel decides to abandon her and little Katia.

Sofia and Julio meet and great passion arises between them, to the extent that Julio is determined to face anything, including ending his relationship with Elisa. To make that Julio will come back with her, Elisa convinces her father, Bernal to fire Sofia since he's her boss at the Prisma company unless she brakes up with Julio.


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