Product Details

• Actors: Franciso Gattorno, Angelica Rivera
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Lionsgate
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
• Run Time: 300 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000Q7ZLSS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,720 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Beautiful, wealthy Regina Villareal seems to have the perfect life, until her fiance abandons her on their wedding day for her capricious cousin Laura. The once sweet Regina turns cold and bitter, leaving the city to live on her sprawling ranch, Los Cascabeles . Her neighbors soon grow to hate her, thanks to her sadistic foreman, Macario, who excuses his atrocities by falsely claiming to be following Regina s orders. The exception is Jose Maria, a handsome, decent young man who is taken with Regina's beauty and strong character. Resist as she might, Jose Marías love gradually tears down the wall Regina has built around her heart.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Abridged? - A hatchet job..., April 1, 2007

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Susan E. Neill (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: La Duena (Telenovela - Televisa) [Abridged] (DVD)

I watch lots of telenovelas but have not wished to own one on dvd - for the sake of one's emotional health, one should limit one's intake of melodrama enhanced by scenery-chewing actors... Recently, though, I indulged my long-lived, sadly unrequited crush on Cuban actor Francisco Gattorno and bought a copy of La Duena, the Mexican soap that made him a star (believe it or not, he looks even better in his most recent novela, "La Viuda de Blanco" (2006-2007), than he did 12+ years ago when he made "La Duena." Age definitely becomes him...). But I must say that though I can't compare it to the original, it's obvious that it's been horrifically butchered by some very untalented editors for conversion to dvd. The story line remains intact and easy to follow for the most part, but it's SO chopped up. And what's most annoying is that they even cut the love scenes (o mejor dicho, esp. about this novela, "I secretly love you but I wish I didn't cuz I'm so mad at you" scenes) absurdly short...

I think La Duena, in its original form, was a good telenovela. It was very popular on Televisa in Mexico. As in most telenovelas, the rural setting is gorgeous. The main character, Regina (Angelica Rivera), is left at the alter by her two-timing, gold-digging fiance Mauricio, and runs away to her hacienda, Las Cascabeles, to heal her wounds. But she's very angry, bitter, and unhappy, and it's not long before everyone at Las Cascabeles, and in town, San Ignacio, is afraid of her. Except for her very handsome and strong-willed neighbor, Jose Maria Cortez (Gattorno, who else?), who suspects she's hiding real heartache and falls in love with her despite her very prickly exterior.

It seems to be the concensus of cyber-critics that all of the DVDs of telenovels are very poorly done. Too bad. So - buyer beware...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars La Dueña DVD only ONE DVD, October 27, 2007

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Aura Marina Hurtado Rojas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: La Duena (DVD)

This Soup opera has ONLY 1 DVD double side not two as the amazon says.

This resume is so short an bad, I prefer the complete soup opera.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Mom's Favorite, October 17, 2005

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Love My Novelas "Rosa" - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Duena (Telenovela - Televisa) [Abridged] (DVD)

This is one of the best Telenovelas of all time. This DVD, like the others in this series, is an edited version, but shows from beginning to end the whole story. It does leave out alot of details but you still get 4 1/2 hours of footage. I recommend this to anybody who has seen or never seen the novela. I was very happy just to experience the novela again.