Vivo Por Elena | |
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Genre |
Telenovela Romance Drama |
Created by | Delia Fiallo |
Written by | Marcia del Río María Cristina Ribal Ricardo Tejeda |
Directed by |
Sergio Jiménez Manolo García Rafael Rojas |
Starring |
Victoria Ruffo Saúl Lisazo Ana Patricia Rojo Sebastián Ligarde Arturo Peniche |
Opening theme | Vivo por ella by Andrea Bocelli & Marta Sánchez |
Country of origin | Mexico |
Original language(s) | Spanish |
No. of episodes | 115 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Juan Osorio |
Location(s) |
Filming Televisa San Ángel Mexico City, Mexico |
Cinematography | Karlos Velázquez Alejandro Álvarez Ceniceros |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 41-44 minutes |
Production company(s) | Televisa |
Distributor | Televisa |
Release | |
Original network | Canal de las Estrellas |
Picture format | 480i SDTV |
Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original release | April 6 – September 11, 1998 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Desencuentro |
Followed by | Camila |
Related shows |
La señorita Elena (1967) La señorita Elena (1974) Atrévete (1986) |
Vivo Por Elena (English title: I live for Elena) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1998. The telenovela has been repeated several times on different channels since its original airing.
On April 6, 1998, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Vivo Por Elena weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing Desencuentro. The last episode was broadcast on September 11, 1998 with Camila replacing it the following day.
Victoria Ruffo and Saúl Lisazo starred as protagonists, while Ana Patricia Rojo, Sebastian Ligarde, Jean Duverger and Julieta Bracho starred as antagonists.
Elena (Victoria Ruffo) is a poor young woman who while attending university to gain a degree in psychology, meets a rich young man named Ernesto (Sebastian Ligarde) whose only goal is to be with as many women as possible, through deception and on more than one occasion, drugs.
After this Elena refuses to see Ernesto again, and swears off ever falling in love again because she believes herself to be damaged because of Ernesto. Elena then focuses solely on her education and graduating so that she can work and help support her two sisters, Chelo (Cecilia Gabriela) and Talita (Anahi).
Chelo is her older sister who was forced to work in a cabaret to support her two younger sisters, Elena and Talita. After graduating she goes to interview at the house of the judge Juan Alberto Montiel (Saul Lisazo) for the position of particular tutor for Juan Alberto's son who in the absence of his mother Silvia (Rojo) has become unruly and disrespectful.
Upon first interviewing she is turned down because Juan Alberto believes her too young and inexperienced to properly care for his son. Juan Alberto's adopted mother is Rebeca (Julieta Bracho), who coincidentally is the mother of Ernesto, and therefore Ernesto and Juan Alberto are like brothers in the sense that they grew up together.
Rebeca believing that Juanito (Imanol), Juan Alberto's son, has been too unruly goes to Elena's house to ask her to take the job because no one else has been interested. Elena arrives at the big house and almost immediately has a profound effect on Juanito and little by little Juan Alberto begins to see a change in his son and realizes that it's all thanks to Elena.