Asdrúbal Meléndez
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0915 |
| Birthday | 1935-11-01 |
| Place of Birth | Falcón, Venezuela |
| Also Known As |
2022
Sons of the Earth
0/0
"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,...
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Sons of the Earth
1996
Tokyo-Paraguaipoa
4.2/5
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...
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Tokyo-Paraguaipoa
1990
Black River
6.75/4
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.
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Black River
1975
Sacred and Obscene
8/1
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...
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Sacred and Obscene
2010
Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
0/0
Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial socie...
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Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
2005
El caracazo
4.3/5
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 febrero y t...
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El caracazo
1984
Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
7/1
In Secretaries Day, either you get laid or you get paid.
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Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
1986
La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
8/1
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...
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La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
2007
La clase
4/1
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La clase
1974
Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
6.5/6
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...
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Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
1978
Carmen
5.5/2
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...
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Carmen
1978
The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
7.5/2
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...
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The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
1979
Portable Country
7/5
Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Adriano González León, the...
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Portable Country
1988
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
5.333/9
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...
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
2017
Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
0/0
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects...
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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
1982
The Wedding
6.75/4
A politically charged film, where a series of archetypal characters are presented.
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The Wedding
1977
The Moving-Picture Man
7.6/5
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...
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The Moving-Picture Man
2020
Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday
0/0
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...
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Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday
1985
Oriana
5.476/21
A young girl is sent to a Venezuelan hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
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Oriana
1979
Manuel
9.5/2
Directed by Alfredo Anzola, Manuel (1979) is a Venezuelan drama that explores themes of love, faith, and resistance. The story follows Aparicio and hi...
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Manuel
1977
Se llamaba SN
8/1
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 subjected to...
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Se llamaba SN
1976
Fiebre
9/1
Vidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a subversive attempt and suffering a romantic disappointment, dec...
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Fiebre
1979
El crimen del penalista
9/1
Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a paramilitary group. Based on the book Grupo Táctico Operacional...
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El crimen del penalista
1966
La ciudad que nos ve
0/0
Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.
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La ciudad que nos ve
1975
La bomba
9/1
Venezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.
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La bomba
1975
El circo mágico
0/0
A young man visits the grave of his lover.
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El circo mágico
2013
Yotama se va volando
5/2
During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three persons (Emilio, Manuel and Lucia) hostage in their apartmen...
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Yotama se va volando
1980
Manoa
7/1
The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles...
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Manoa
1984
¡Diles que no me maten!
10/1
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...
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¡Diles que no me maten!
2011
El Silbón
2/0
Short film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón)
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El Silbón
1984
El iluminado
10/1
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...
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El iluminado
2011
Una Mirada al Mar
3.8/2
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...
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Una Mirada al Mar
1983
The Compass Rose
4.625/8
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin A...
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The Compass Rose
1998
Coup at Daybreak
6.833/12
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...
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Coup at Daybreak
2000
Manuela Sáenz
6.667/3
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 Sim...
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Manuela Sáenz
1997
La voz del corazón
0/0
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 worl...
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La voz del corazón
2020
Canción de las sombras
0/0
The eternal dilemma of the creator and his relationships with the state, patronage, and society comprise this Ludovician triptych. The creator establi...
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Canción de las sombras
1988
The Secret
9/1
Gaspar Urbieta works as a typographer in Maracaibo. The National Guard convinces him to infiltrate an organization of Colombian gold smugglers. Gaspa...
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