Eugenio Monclova

Eugenio Monclova

Birth : 1957-12-05, Puerto Rico

History

Eugenio Monclova is a Puerto Rican stage, film and television actor and director. He holds a BA in Acting from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, and an MFA in Directing and Acting from the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

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Eugenio Monclova

Movies

The Vessel
Deacon José
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Cows Wearing Glasses
Marcelino is an eccentric, introverted painter and art professor who, approaching his sunset years, learns he has a disease that could render him blind at any moment. As he begins to put his emotional affairs in order, including his strained relationship with his daughter, he must face the inevitable.
El aquelarre
A man is convinced his pregnant wife is a witch and that she is carrying an abomination in her womb.
El detective Cojines
The story of a college professor obsessed with private eye novels who, following an accident, becomes a private investigator patterned after the movies and novels of the 40’s. Among the cases he investigates, three will come to him that will reveal a full range of intrigue and bizarre secrets.
El cimarrón
El cimarrón is a love story about a young African couple, Marcos and Carolina, that takes place in the slavery era at the turn of the nineteen-century in a Caribbean island. After several futile escape plans, Marcos finally escaped. Now free, he returns to liberate his beloved Carolina.
El último caso del detective Prado
Sherlock Holmes
After a long career as a detective in the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Police of Puerto Rico, José Rafael Prado takes office work before retiring. The murder of a coworker creates a vacancy Prado quickly wants to fill in order to "retire with honor".
Revolución en el infierno
Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.
Sabo
Jury Member #1
Celestino y el Vampiro
El Vampiro
In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.
Leyendas de Puerto Rico
Medic / Friend
A film narrative on Puerto Rican playwright and journalist don Cayetano Coll y Toste. Three of his most famous stories are reenacted: "El Santo Cristo de la Salud", "El Espíritu del Carretero", and "La Garita del Diablo".
Cuentos para despertar
Recreates aspects of the life of Abelardo Díaz Alfaro as a rural teacher in Puerto Rico during 1940's, integrating three of his stories "El josco", "Santa Cló va a la cuchilla", and "Don Fruto Torres".
La guagua aérea
Passenger visiting NY for the first time
A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
Cauce sin río
Based on Enrique A. Laguerre's novel.
La Charca
Based on Manuel Zeno Gandía's novel about peasant life in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico.
La leyenda