Cinema
Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro
Mauricio Walerstein · 1973
Synopsis
In Venezuela in 1948, three boys are born on the same day and given the same first name, Victorino. Pérez, of mixed race, is the son of a poor woman; Perdomo is the son of a middle-class communist who is arrested soon after; Peralta is born into the upper bourgeoisie. Eighteen years later, the first goes from prison to escape and from theft to violence, the second joins guerrillas who are preparing to attack a bank while his father, elected a deputy, tries to turn him away from it, and the third lives in luxury, caught up in the same violence without ever having to answer for it.
Context
The director brought to the screen the novel of the same name by Miguel Otero Silva, who co-wrote the screenplay with him. Eighty-five minutes, with cinematography by Abigail Rojas, and a cast in which Orlando Urdaneta, Pedro Laya and Valentín Trujillo play the three roles of Victorino, alongside Miguel Ángel Landa, Haydée Balza, Rafael Briceño and Verónica Castro. Released in July 1973, the film was shown in official selection at the eighth Moscow International Film Festival.
Who it is for
An hour and twenty-five minutes in Spanish, untranslated; three lives led side by side, which must be followed in parallel, and violence shown without detour.
Prizes and reception
A great popular success, presented in Moscow, and regarded as the herald of the renewal that Venezuelan cinema then experienced.
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