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Román Chalbaud

Román Chalbaud

1931-10-10
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Mérida, Venezuela

Román Chalbaud was born on October 10, 1931 in Mérida, Venezuela. He is a director and writer, known for Pandemonium, la capital del infierno (1997), El pez que fuma (1977) and La quema de Judas (1974).

Mérida, Venezuela

Román Chalbaud was born on October 10, 1931 in Mérida, Venezuela. He is a director and writer, known for Pandemonium, la capital del infierno (1997), El pez que fuma (1977) and La quema de Judas (1974).

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The Smoking Fish 1977 (6.5)

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
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When I Want to Cry, I Don't 1973 (5.4)

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…
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Young Cain 1959 (6.5)

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.