Asdrúbal Meléndez
Birthday: 1935-11-01
Place of Birth: Falcón, Venezuela
Biography: 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.
Movies
Sons of the Earth
"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, storie...
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Tokyo-Paraguaipoa
Ryuzo, Japanese young man who has committed a crime of passion in Tokyo, is sent by his father to Pa...
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Black River
Río Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town i...
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Sacred and Obscene
Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension...
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Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked th...
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El caracazo
El Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de Carlos ...
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Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid....
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La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaught...
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Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides...
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Carmen
Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fi...
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The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
A skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for the...
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Portable Country
Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the...
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The ...
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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual univer...
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The Wedding
A politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented....
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The Moving-Picture Man
Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in ...
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Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday
Gregoria is a young peasant from the Venezuelan Andes, Lucia is a frivolous middle-aged city dweller...
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Oriana
A young girl is sent to a Venezuelan hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt...
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Manuel
Directed by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love, faith,...
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Se llamaba SN
As José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the Orinoco ...
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Fiebre
Vidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a subversive at...
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El crimen del penalista
Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a paramilitary g...
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La ciudad que nos ve
Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality....
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Yotama se va volando
During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three persons (E...
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Manoa
The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposit...
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¡Diles que no me maten!
A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing ...
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El Silbón
Short film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón)...
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El iluminado
Ignacio is known as El Iluminado de la Esmeralda (The Enlightened One of the Emerald) for his healin...
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Una Mirada al Mar
Rufino, a man of 71, is widowed and decides to return to the village where he met his wife. There is...
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The Compass Rose
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial...
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Coup at Daybreak
The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a gro...
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Manuela Sáenz
In 1856, a whaler arrives in Paita, Peru; on board is Herman Melville, who is astonished to learn th...
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La voz del corazón
It tells the story of Tomás, a man who decides to enter the Orinoco jungle under another identity an...
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Cancion de las sombras
The eternal dilemma of the creator and his relationships with the state, patronage, and society comp...
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The Secret
Gaspar Urbieta works as a typographer in Maracaibo. The National Guard convinces him to infiltrate a...
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