Román Chalbaud

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Román Chalbaud

Born October 10, 1931 · Mérida, Venezuela

Died September 12, 2023 · aged 91

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).

Known For

Días de poderDías de poder · 2011
Días de poder
2011
MovieHistoryDrama
The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez, ascends to power, betraying their ideals to become an accomplice of repression against whom he fought.
InfielesInfieles · 2019
Infieles
6.12019
MovieComedy
Luisa cheats on Guillermo with Sebastian, who cheats on Ximena. When Luisa goes missing after both couples return from a double date night, the whole house of cards starts tumbling down.
Seis meses de vidaSeis meses de vida · 1951
Seis meses de vida
8.01951
Movie
Venezuelan comedy directed by Víctor Urruchúa.
ManonManon · 1986
Manon
7.01986
MovieDrama
During a bus ride through the Andes, two seminarians encounter with a woman named Manon. Immediately, one of them falls in love and the attraction is mutual, so they decide to flee to capital city to start a new life. But the love of Manon ambitious drags this man to leave his vocation and commit criminal acts to maintain a life of luxury and extravagance.
La Oveja NegraLa Oveja Negra · 1987
La Oveja Negra
8.01987
MovieComedyDrama
A group of thieves and outcasts are living in a big abandoned movie theater where they have created a very friendly and very particular universe. The police will use all its resources to violate their space, but again and again fail in their attempts.
La planta insolenteLa planta insolente · 2017
La planta insolente
2017
MovieDramaHistory
The film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902.
Una noche orientalUna noche oriental · 1986
Una noche oriental
10.01986
MovieComedyDrama
Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.
Cuchillos de fuegoCuchillos de fuego · 1990
Cuchillos de fuego
5.01990
MovieDramaFantasy
Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the rapist and murderer of his mother, takes us into the underworld strata fairs and circuses villagers.

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When I Want to Cry, I Don'tWhen I Want to Cry, I Don't · 1973
When I Want to Cry, I Don't
5.01973
MovieCrimeDrama
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…

Screenplay