''Érase una vez'' (stylized onscreen ''Érase una vez, lo que no te contaron del cuento''), is a Mexican

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series produced by Andrés Tovar, Gonzalo Cilley, Pedro Ybarra, Araceli Sánchez Mariscal and Marcela Ibarra for

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. Based on the classic stories, the series shows the current situation in

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. The first season was released on 2 October 2017.

Cast

Enrique Rocha Enrique Rocha (January 5, 1940 – November 7, 2021) was a Mexican actor. He made his debut in the film industry in the film Guadalajara en Verano directed by Julio Bracho in the last decade of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Filmography ...

as Narrator * Pablo Lyle as Esteban (episode, "Blanca Nieves") * Renata Notni as Blanca Valle (episode, "Blanca Nieves") * Anna Ciocchetti as Lucía Cardeña (episode, "Blanca Nieves") *

Luis Arrieta Luis Arrieta (born 23 July 1982), is a Mexicans, Mexican film actor, television actor producer, director and writer. Filmography References External links

* 1982 births Mexican male film actors Mexican male telenovela actor ...

as Mateo Toledo (episode, "Los tres cochinitos") * Andrés Palacios as Vidal (episode, "Caperucita Roja") * Alejandro Belmonte as Galindo (episode, "Ricitos de oro") * Alicia Jaziz as Pilar (episode, "Caperucita Roja") *

Evangelina Elizondo Gloria Evangelina Elizondo López-Llera (28 April 1929 – 2 October 2017) was a Mexican actress and singer from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She starred in movies, television and theater. She was an accomplished artist having studied at ...

as Ágata (episode, "La bella y la bestia") * Fabiola Guajardo as Diana (episode, "El príncipe y el mendigo") * Sergio Lozano as Carlos / Eduardo (episode, "El príncipe y el mendigo") * Osvaldo de León as Daniel Torres (episode, "El gato con botas") *

Isela Vega Isela Vega Durazo (5 November 1939 – 9 March 2021) was a Mexican actress,Televis ...

as Águeda (episode, "Hansel y Gretel") *

Ana Layevska Anna Serhiivna Layevska (; born January 10, 1984), known as Ana Layevska, is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian-Mexicans, Mexican actress and singer. Early life Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Ana is the only child of violinist Serhii Laievskyi and actress Inna Ra ...

as Cinthia (episode, "Patito feo") *

Valentina Acosta Valentina Acosta (born July 23, 1982), is a Colombian television actress, presenter and model A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-centu ...

as Noemí (episode, "La bella y la bestia") * Carlos Ferro as Marco Thierón (episode, "La bella y la bestia") * Moisés Arizmendi as Ricardo Toledo (episode, "La bella y la bestia") * Eduardo Victoria as Sergio Montiel (episode, "El príncipe y el mendigo")

Production

The series is adapted to the police genre, but from a dark and sophisticated point of view. The first season consists of 12 episodes, each with a beginning of plot and closing. In the first season they tell classic stories such as ''

Little Red Riding Hood "Little Red Riding Hood" () is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European Fable, folk tales. It was later retold in the 19th-century by the Broth ...

'', ''

Snow White "Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', numbered as Tale 53. The original title was ''Sneewittch ...

'', ''

The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in ''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'' and glossed by the ''Oxford E ...

'', ''

The Prince and the Pauper ''The Prince and the Pauper'' is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. The plot conce ...

'', ''

Puss in Boots "Puss in Boots" (; ; ; ) is a European fairy tale about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand in marriage of a princess for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest written telling version ...

'', ''

Goldilocks and the Three Bears "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale tells of an impudent old woman who enters the forest home of three anthropomorphic bachelor bears while th ...

'', ''

Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...

'', ''

The Three Little Pigs "The Three Little Pigs" is a fable about three pigs who build their houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses which are made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's ho ...

'', ''

Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...

'', ''

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel, ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a poor man named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

'', and ''

Hansel & Gretel "Hansel and Gretel" (; ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). Hansel and Gretel are siblings who are abandoned in a forest and fall into the hands of a witch ...

'' each of these stories will be adapted to the present.

Episodes

The season consists of a total of 12 episodes.

Ratings

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Érase una vez 2010s Mexican drama television series Blim TV original programming 2017 Mexican television series debuts Televisa original programming Canal 5 (Mexico) original programming 2017 Mexican television series endings