Asdrúbal Meléndez
A schoolteacher, calligrapher, and theater, film, and television actor, he has an interest in other disciplines such as poetry, sculpture, and painting. He studied art at renowned institutions in the country and sculpture in Prague, Czech Republic. His artistic work can be seen in more than 60 feature films, the first of which was El cine soy yo (1977) by Luis Armando Roche. He has also worked as a set designer for various theatrical productions and Venezuelan films. As a poet, he has an important body of work published in magazines and newspapers.

Oriana
as SánchezA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her...
Movie pageEl crimen del penalista
as uncreditedBased on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a...
Movie pageEl caracazo
as uncreditedEl Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de...
Movie pageA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
as PelayoAn elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy....
Movie pageCóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
as uncreditedIn Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.
Movie pageThe Compass Rose
as uncreditedExiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this...
Movie pageEl Silbón
as uncreditedShort film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón)
Movie pageSons of the Earth
as Abuelo de Rafael"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news,...
Movie pageThe Wedding
as uncreditedA politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented.
Movie pageThe Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
as uncreditedA skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for...
Movie pageFiebre
as uncreditedVidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a...
Movie pageChronicle of a Latin American Subversive
as uncredited1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that...
Movie pageCabrujas en el país del disimulo
as uncreditedBeginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual...
Movie page¡Diles que no me maten!
as Juvencio NavaA young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner...
Movie pageThe Moving-Picture Man
as JacintoHappy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies...
Movie pageTokyo-Paraguaipoa
as uncreditedRyuzo, Japanese young man who has committed a crime of passion in Tokyo, is sent by his father...
Movie pageBlack River
as CarreraRío Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small...
Movie pagePortable Country
as uncreditedPortable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of...
Movie pageYotama se va volando
as uncreditedDuring Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three...
Movie pageCarmen
as uncreditedCarmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day,...
Movie pageManoa
as uncreditedThe intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from...
Movie pageLa Matanza de Santa Bárbara
as uncreditedThe confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great...
Movie pageSacred and Obscene
as uncreditedPedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a...
Movie pageLa bomba
as uncreditedVenezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.
Movie pageUna Mirada al Mar
as uncreditedRufino, a man of 71, is widowed and decides to return to the village where he met his wife....
Movie pageSe llamaba SN
as uncreditedAs José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the...
Movie pageManuel
as ManuelDirected by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love,...
Movie pageMonday or Tuesday, Never Sunday
as EzequielGregoria is a young peasant from the Venezuelan Andes, Lucia is a frivolous middle-aged city...
Movie pageEl iluminado
as uncreditedIgnacio is known as El Iluminado de la Esmeralda (The Enlightened One of the Emerald) for his...
Movie pageLa ciudad que nos ve
as uncreditedLife in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.
Movie pageEl circo mágico
as uncreditedA young man visits the grave of his lover.
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