Product Details

• Actors: Veronica Castro, Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Humberto Zurita
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• 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: 3
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Lionsgate
• DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007
• Run Time: 729 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P296AI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,646 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

When a pregnant young woman consults her doctor about an abortion, he tells her the story of the Del Junco family, headed by Don Rafael, a severe patriarch whose daughter, María Elena, becomes pregnant by a traveling salesman. Don Rafael sends María Elena and her nanny, María Dolores, to his country house where they are the prisoners of Bruno the foreman. Though Bruno has orders to kill the baby when it is born, María Dolores begs for the child's life and flees to Mexico City, where she raises him as her own. María Elena spends years searching in vain for her son, and eventually enters a convent. The boy, meanwhile, grows to manhood and becomes a doctor. While interning at a hospital, he meets a pretty young volunteer who takes him home to meet her family, including her aunt, Sister María Elena, and her grandfather, Don Rafael.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Otra vez falla la musicalizacion!, July 2, 2008

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Mighty Battlecat "Cringer" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: El Derecho de Nacer (DVD)

He comprado varias telenovelas en DVD (ya que las colecciono). Por desgracia, no puedo soportar a la mayoria ya que las han arruinado con la musica que han usado para cubrir la original. Para mi, eso arruina la telenovela por completo. Ya sea porque no tienen las pistas originales, o porque no pueden remasterizar el original para separar el dialogo, o no quieren pagar derechos... Es increible que Televisa, una de las companias mas grandes del MUNDO no pueda invertir en presentar sus colleciones de una manera que respete a la obra original.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars El Derecho de Nacer, September 12, 2010

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JENN - See all my reviews

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This review is from: El Derecho de Nacer (DVD)

This is a wonderful novela (story) which depicts that skin color does not make a difference when it comes to loving someone. It also shows how giving great importance to class can ruin more than one life. This movie is an old story, with an ongoing theme; it is sad but with a happpy moral ending. I recommend it because I do not get tire of watching it, and know many people who have said that it is one of the best novelas ever. It was a movie first, because I saw it when I was a child, in black and white, and always wanted to see it again and have my children see it also.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars El derecho de nacer (The right to be born), April 4, 2009

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Vivian Munoz - See all my reviews
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I don't think there is a great deal to say. Most of these 'telenovelas' are quite similar, rather formulae. I only bought it for my mother to have something to watch in Spanish .

On the other hand, it's an interesting and well acted story that keeps the viewer wanting to see what happens next.
However, we found that the way the mother loses her child, the maid raising him and the mother entering a convent without much drama, was a bit too much to expect viewers to believe. What mother wouldn't do the utmost to try to find her child?
The first scenes, where the young woman's parents act very harshly with her on finding out about her pregnancy, seem too melodramatic on the young woman's part. It becomes rather annoying as these scenes are quite long too.
Finally, and this is an unfortunate feature of many Latin telenovelas, the background music is too loud throughout often drowning the characters' dialogue.