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Filmmaker · Venezuela

Román Chalbaud

Died in 2023

Román Chalbaud was born in Mérida on 10 October 1931 and came to Caracas at the age of six. He was artistic director of the Televisora Nacional from 1955, directed the National Theatre from 1958 and in 1967 co-founded the troupe El Nuevo Grupo, while writing for the stage. He then moved into cinema, headed the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela for two years and received the national prizes for theatre and for cinema. He died in Caracas in September 2023, aged ninety-one.

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