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The House of Water

60% | May 16, 1984
Drama

Set in the 1920s in Venezuela, this political melodrama by Jacobo Penzo follows the decision of the fictional Cruz Elías León (Franklin Virguéz), a young Venezuelan poet, to give up a life of social and possibly mainstream political advancement to go back to his home and family in an isolated fishing village and combat the despotic military dictator in charge of the country.

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Franklin Vírgüez
Cruz Elías Salmerón Acosta
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Giles Bickford
Primer gringo
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Hilda Vera
La madre
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Doris Wells
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Tomás Eloy Martínez
Writer
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Jacobo Penzo
Director
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Juan Carlos Núñez
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