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Asdrúbal Meléndez
Born: 1st Nov 1935 Falcón, Venezuela
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 38
Film: 38 (100%)
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Filmography
Original title: Hijos de la tierra
2022
"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, ... view
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Abuelo de Rafael
Original title: Lunes o Martes, nunca Domingo
2020
Gregoria is a young peasant from the Venezuelan Andes, Lucia is a frivolous middle-aged city dweller. Forced by the circumstances they must travel tog ... view
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Ezequiel
2020
The eternal dilemma of the creator and his relationships with the state, patronage, and society comprise this Ludovician triptych. The creator establi ... view
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2017
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects ... view
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2013
During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three persons (Emilio, Manuel and Lucia) hostage in their apartmen ... view
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2011
Short film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón) ... view
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2011
Rufino, a man of 71, is widowed and decides to return to the village where he met his wife. There is reunited with his landscapes and his friend Gaspa ... view
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2010
Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial socie ... view
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2005
El Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de Carlos Andrés Pérez, que comenzó el día 27 de febrer ... view
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2000
In 1856, a whaler arrives in Paita, Peru; on board is Herman Melville, who is astonished to learn that Manuela Sáenz, for eight years the lover of Si ... view
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Original title: Amaneció de Golpe
1998
The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezu ... view
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1997
It tells the story of Tomás, a man who decides to enter the Orinoco jungle under another identity and meets a woman, together they will live in a wor ... view
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1996
Ryuzo, Japanese young man who has committed a crime of passion in Tokyo, is sent by his father to Paraguaipoa to escape justice. In this place, inhabi ... view
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Original title: Río Negro
1990
The struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. ... view
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Carrera
Original title: El Secreto
1988
Gaspar Urbieta works as a typographer in Maracaibo. The National Guard convinces him to infiltrate an organization of Colombian gold smugglers. Gaspa ... view
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Original title: Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
1988
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor ... view
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Pelayo
1986
The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaughter where almost all the members of one the sides d ... view
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1985
A young girl is sent to a Venezuelan hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana. ... view
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Sánchez
1984
A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing the peasant's cattle which result in the peasant k ... view
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Juvencio Nava
1984
In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid. ... view
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1984
Ignacio is known as El Iluminado de la Esmeralda (The Enlightened One of the Emerald) for his healing powers. Urged by the eviction of the house where ... view
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Original title: La rosa de los vientos
1983
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin ... view
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Original title: La boda
1982
A politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented. ... view
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1980
The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles ... view
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Original title: País Portátil
1979
Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Adriano González León, th ... view
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Sacerdote
1979
Directed by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love, faith, and resistance. The story follows Aparicio and hi ... view
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Manuel
1979
Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a paramilitary group. Based on the book Grupo Táctico Operacion ... view
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Original title: Carmen, la que contaba 16 años
1978
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 ... view
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Original title: La empresa perdona un momento de locura
1978
A skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for the last 20 years. He attacks the machines and smashe ... view
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Original title: El cine soy yo
1977
Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in places where the locals don't get much culture. Bu ... view
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Jacinto
1977
As José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the Orinoco Delta, he recalls the torture he was subjecte ... view
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1976
Vidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a subversive attempt and suffering a romantic disappointment, de ... view
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Original title: Sagrado y Obsceno
1975
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 ... view
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Original title: Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano
1974
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in comman ... view
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1966
Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality. ... view
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