| Num Episodes: | 126 |
| Genre: | Telenovela Horror Romance Drama |
| Creator: | Martín Hahn |
| Starring: | Chantal Baudaux Juan Carlos García Astrid Carolina Herrera |
| Opentheme: | Me huele a soledad by MDO |
| Endtheme: | Volver a Respirar by Jessica |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Venezuela |
| Location: | Carora, Venezuela |
| Channel: | RCTV |
| Executive Producer: | Mariana Djuro |
| Producer: | Marco Godoy Ramirez |
| Director: | Olegario Barrera Otto Rodríguez |
La mujer de Judas (English:The Wife of Judas) is a Venezuelan telenovela created by Martín Hahn for RCTV in 2002. The telenovela lasted for 126 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.[1]
Astrid Carolina Herrera starred as the main antagonist[2] with Chantal Baudaux and Juan Carlos García as the main protagonists.[3] [4]
A dark secret which was securely kept hidden after all these years, connects six friends, heiress Altagracia del Toro, her best friend, Juaca; her other friends Ricarda; Marina; Chichita and Laura. One fateful day, Altagracia will marry a man named Julian Morera for money and to spite her father. On the same day, a man tries to rape her friend, Laura in the basement of the wine distilleries owned by Altagracia's family. Her friends accidentally kill him in the impulse of anger. The girls realize too late what they had done. They are shocked to see their parish priest, Padre Sebastian witness their crime. He asks them to report what happened to the police, but they reject the idea. Padre Sebastian departs. Then the friends agreed to hide the corpse inside a wall, each of them leaving the basement in search for the priest, fearing, that he will tell the police. But when Altagracia found him, he was already dead inside the confession box of the church and with that she was incarcerated for that crime.
20 years later, Altagracia, now given the infamous nickname "La Mujer de Judas", was released from prison much to public outrage from the townspeople of Carora. An aspiring reporter Gloria Leal along with her friends from the university is trying to find a subject for their documentary which is their final requirement before graduation. Gloria was attracted to uncover the mystery of "La Mujer de Judas" and wants to uncover if Altagracia was innocent all along. The idea was met by anger by Gloria's mother, Juaca, but Gloria cannot be stopped. She befriended the Officer in Charge of Del Toro winery, Salomon. As days pass, they became more attracted to each other. As Gloria and her friends try to uncover the secrets of the past, a mysterious figure dressed in a wedding dress hiding behind a skull mask starts to terrorize the town. The figure earns the name "La Mujer de Judas". Altagracia was immediately blamed by the townspeople but the police realize that there is no evidence linking Altagracia to this mysterious figure. La Mujer de Judas tries to destroy evidence and kills people that knows the truth to the events 20 years ago. But who is hiding behind the mask of La Mujer de Judas and what is the killer's motive? Will love be enough for them to survive?
At the end it is later unmasked that Altagracia herself is the real "La Mujer De Judas" And that she is the one vowing revenge on the people who abandoned her to suffer for a long time in prison.[5]
TV Azteca 13 in Mexico produced their own version of La Mujer de Judas (2012). It stars Andrea Marti, Victor Gonzalez and Anette Michel.