When I Want to Cry, I Don't (1973)
In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…
Director:
Mauricio Walerstein
Writers:
Mauricio Walerstein, Román Chalbaud.
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Orlando Urdaneta as Victorino Pérez |
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Valentín Trujillo as Victorino Peralta |
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Pedro Laya as Victorino Perdomo |
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Haydée Balza as |
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Verónica Castro as |
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Miguelangel Landa as |
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Rafael Briceño as |
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Liliana Durán as |
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Samuel Roldán as |
| Directing | Mauricio Walerstein | Director |
| Production | Mauricio Walerstein | Producer |
| Writing | Mauricio Walerstein | Screenplay |
| Editing | Alcides Longa | Editor |
| Writing | Román Chalbaud | Screenplay |
| Writing | Miguel Otero Silva | Novel |
| Crew | Abigaíl Rojas | Cinematography |
| Production | Abigaíl Rojas | Producer |
| Sound | Miguel Ángel Fuster | Music |