Asdrúbal Meléndez

Born: 1935-11-01

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.


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Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

as uncredited
Released: 1974-07-23

1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that...

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Portable Country

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-24

Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of...

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Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria

as uncredited
Released: 1984-07-25

In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.

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Oriana

as Sánchez
Released: 1985-09-08

A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her...

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The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness

as uncredited
Released: 1978-01-02

A skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for...

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Sacred and Obscene

as uncredited
Released: 1975-07-23

Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a...

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El crimen del penalista

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-01

Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a...

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

as Pelayo
Released: 1988-01-01

An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy....

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El caracazo

as uncredited
Released: 2005-02-11

El Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de...

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Black River

as Carrera
Released: 1992-02-12

Río Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small...

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Tokyo-Paraguaipoa

as uncredited
Released: 1996-07-24

Ryuzo, Japanese young man who has committed a crime of passion in Tokyo, is sent by his father...

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The Moving-Picture Man

as Jacinto
Released: 1977-11-11

Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies...

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Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday

as Ezequiel
Released: 2020-06-10

Gregoria is a young peasant from the Venezuelan Andes, Lucia is a frivolous middle-aged city...

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The Wedding

as uncredited
Released: 1982-01-24

A politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented.

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El Silbón

as uncredited
Released: 2011-08-20

Short film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón)

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Manoa

as uncredited
Released: 1980-03-19

The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from...

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La Matanza de Santa Bárbara

as uncredited
Released: 1986-08-27

The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great...

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Carmen

as uncredited
Released: 1978-10-11

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day,...

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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

as uncredited
Released: 2017-01-13

Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual...

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La bomba

as uncredited
Released: 1975-08-20

Venezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.

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Yotama se va volando

as uncredited
Released: 2013-01-02

During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three...

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Sons of the Earth

as Abuelo de Rafael
Released: 2022-09-22

"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news,...

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¡Diles que no me maten!

as Juvencio Nava
Released: 1985-12-06

A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner...

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Se llamaba SN

as uncredited
Released: 1977-01-01

As José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the...

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Manuel

as Manuel
Released: 1979-01-01

Aparicio and his wife, Alma Rosa, see a new priest arrive. Manuel, at the same time that he is...

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Fiebre

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

Vidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a...

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La ciudad que nos ve

as uncredited
Released: 1966-11-09

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