Asdrúbal Meléndez

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Nov 01, 1935 (89 years old)

Asdrúbal Meléndez

Known For

Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday
2h 0m
Movie 2020

Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday

Gregoria is a young peasant from the Venezuelan Andes, Lucia is a frivolous middle-aged city dweller. Forced by the circumstances they must travel together to reach their destinations. One will discover the past, the other will discover her present. Both discover the strength of love.

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
1h 49m
Movie 2017

Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.

Yotama se va volando
1h 30m
Movie 2013

Yotama se va volando

During Christmas time in Caracas, a woman (Yotama) holds up a restaurant. She takes three persons (Emilio, Manuel and Lucia) hostage in their apartment. Day by day Emilio, an old musician and Yotama become friends. Yotama's small daughter, Victoria, is brought into the apartment. Emilio dies and the rest of the three persons become united in a common bond of humanity.

El Silbón
0h 29m
Movie 2011

El Silbón

Short film based on the Venezuelan folkloric story: The Whistler (El SIlbón)

Una Mirada al Mar
1h 35m
Movie 2011

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 reunited with his landscapes and his friend Gaspar, a painter who has taken over a little orphan girl named Ana eight-year-E, Rufino who will be forced to remain under the same roof, despite its hostile coexistence . The loneliness of these characters are facing, beginning strokes to a new way to overcome abandonment.

Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
3h 0m
Movie 2010

Zamora, tierra y hombres libres

Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals of liberty is leading a fight to try to erase social inequalities and distribute land equitably.

Black River
1h 57m
Movie 1992

Black River

Río Negro is 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

La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
1h 30m
Movie 1986

La Matanza de Santa Bárbara

The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaughter where almost all the members of one the sides dies. One of the survivor will take justice into his own hands.

¡Diles que no me maten!
Movie 1985

¡Diles que no me maten!

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 killing the landowner which for the man goes in to hiding for more than 40 years, hounded by the murdered landowner's son obsessed with finding his father's killer.

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.

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