Directing

César Bolívar

Born October 4, 1941 · Caracas, Venezuela

Died May 31, 2024 · aged 82

César Agusto Bolívar Masso (Caracas, September 4, 1944 – May 31, 2024) was a Venezuelan filmmaker, writer, actor, and educator. He produced numerous works that established him as an emblematic figure of the New Venezuelan Cinema, with films such as Domingo de resurrección (1982) and Homicidio culposo (1984). He directed several successful dramatized television series, including Sangre azul and El …

Known For

The Burning of Judas

The Burning of Judas · 1974

The Burning of Judas

Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.

Tango Bar

Tango Bar · 2024

MovieDramaRomance

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.

Juan Topocho

Juan Topocho · 1979

Bittersweet comedy by Cesar Bolivar about a quiet and humble villager who becomes a faith healer.

The Smoking Fish

The Smoking Fish · 1977

The Smoking Fish

MovieComedyDrama

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.

The Flock of Angels

The Flock of Angels · 1979

The Flock of Angels

Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended.

Carmen

MovieMusicDrama

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.

Ifigenia, la película

Ifigenia, la película · 1987

Ifigenia, la película

María Eugenia Alonso, almost a woman, still an adolescent, returns from Europe to impose the light of her reason on that of her old house, a temple of boredom, where, as in the ancient and moist churches, the old smell of traditions and race floats.

Más allá del silencio

Más allá del silencio · 1985

Más allá del silencio

MovieCrimeDrama

Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.

Filmography

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The Burning of Judas

The Burning of Judas · 1974

The Burning of Judas

Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.

Camera Operator

Tango Bar

Tango Bar · 2024

MovieDramaRomance

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.

Director of Photography

Juan Topocho

Juan Topocho · 1979

Bittersweet comedy by Cesar Bolivar about a quiet and humble villager who becomes a faith healer.

Director

The Smoking Fish

The Smoking Fish · 1977

The Smoking Fish

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director of Photography

The Flock of Angels

The Flock of Angels · 1979

The Flock of Angels

Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended.

Cinematography

Carmen

MovieMusicDrama

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.

Director of Photography

Ifigenia, la película

Ifigenia, la película · 1987

Ifigenia, la película

María Eugenia Alonso, almost a woman, still an adolescent, returns from Europe to impose the light of her reason on that of her old house, a temple of boredom, where, as in the ancient and moist churches, the old smell of traditions and race floats.

Camera Operator

Más allá del silencio

Más allá del silencio · 1985

Más allá del silencio

MovieCrimeDrama

Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.

Director

Bodas de Papel

Bodas de Papel · 1979

Esther and Gustavo are celebrating seven years of happy marriage. Two beautiful children and a comfortable home in a residential area backs the stability of the still young couple, a conventional model of marriage where nothing seems to disturb their harmonious coexistence.

Cinematography

Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma

Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma · 2021

Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma

Documentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40 years after the premiere of the film. Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.

Manslaughter

Manslaughter · 1984

MovieThrillerDrama

A police drama that chronicles the efforts of a police officer to uncover an unexplained murder case that blends the lives of two women and a theater actor, the victim of an "artistic" shot, part of a play.

Editor

Chévere o la victoria de Wellington

Chévere o la victoria de Wellington · 1971

Chévere o la victoria de Wellington

MovieComedyDrama

A young man roams the streets of Caracas.

Editor

Crab

MovieDramaCrime

Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) of the Technical Judicial Police is assigned to the kidnapping of a child of the upper class of Caracas. The details of the kidnapping the attention of Leon, as there is no evidence of violence in the child's home, or witnesses to the abduction. Based on that Leon believes that the hijackers knew the boy and soon begins to suspect several young people from wealthy families of Caracas.

Director of Photography

Muchacho solitario

Muchacho solitario · 1998

Muchacho solitario

MovieMusicDrama

Two cousins learn the value of life through a singing competition, which earns them the money to pay all debts of their family.

Director

Sacred and Obscene

Sacred and Obscene · 1975

Sacred and Obscene

Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences.

Cinematography

Resurrection Sunday

Resurrection Sunday · 1982

Resurrection Sunday

MovieComedyDrama

A Venezuelan black comedy from 1982 directed by César Bolívar, Domingo de Resurrección follows a middle-class family who head to the beach for Holy Week. Their Easter Sunday takes a dark turn when the grandmother dies peacefully in her sleep, triggering a chaotic chain of tragicomic misadventures. The film blends humor and absurdity as the family desperately tries to handle the situation amid everyday Venezuelan chaos.

Director

Cosita Rica

Cosita Rica · 2003

SeriesDramaSoap

Cosita Rica is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. This telenovela lasted 270 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International. Fabiola Colmenares and Colombian actor Rafael Novoa starred as the main protagonists while Chiquinquirá Delgado, Carlos Cruz, Daniel Alvarado and Nohely Arteaga starred as the main antagonists.

Director

Ciudad Bendita

Ciudad Bendita · 2006

SeriesDramaSoap

Creator