Mauricio Walerstein

Mauricio Walerstein was born in Mexico City on 29 March 1945, the son of the producer and screenwriter Gregorio Walerstein, a figure of the golden age of Mexican cinema. Settled in Venezuela in the early seventies, he worked there for more than thirty years as a director, producer and screenwriter, and took up subjects that were then rare and controversial, homosexuality, oppression by those in power, the social question. He shared more than twenty years of his life with the actress Marisela Berti, mother of his son Alejandro, an actor. He died in Mexico City on 3 July 2016, aged seventy-one.

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• CinemaCuando quiero llorar, no lloroMauricio Walerstein · 1973Cinema