Clemente de la Cerda

Nacimiento : 1935-09-13, Chichiriviche, Venezuela

Muerte : 1984-12-13

Historia

An outstanding Venezuelan film director, de la Cerda's films were characterized for their denunciation of social conditions of the underprivileged in Venezuelan society. As a child, his family moved to Caracas, where he soon enrolled in the School of Plastic Arts. Between 1962 and 1963 he frequented the Venezuelan Institute of Movie Studies, directed at the time by the actor Luis Salazar. Later, he studied theater with Humberto Orsini in the Central University of Venezuela for 8 months. At the same time, he began to work at Televisa (later Channel 4) as a camera assistant, advancing in responsibilities until getting to direct musical programs and soap operas, among those shows "La telenovela criolla" ("The Creole Soap Opera"), which starred Maria Escalona and Américo Montero. As a result of the arrival of videotape recording, he decided to leave television for film, working in news and commercials, first as a cameraman and soon as a director. In 1964 he began his career as a film director, producing a series of narrative films that, over the course of 10 to 20 years, made him the most active film director of that time in Venezuela. Among his more important films are: Isla de Sal [Island of Salt] and El Rostro [The Hidden Face] (1964), Sin fin [Endless] (1971), Cahuramanacas (short film, 1971), Soy un delincuente [I Am a Delinquent] (1976), Reincidente {a sequel to I Am a Delinquent} and Companer de viaje [Fellow Traveller] (1977), El crimen del penalista [The Crime of the Criminal Attorney] (1979), Los criminales [The Criminals] (1982), Reten de Catia and Agua que no haz de beber [Water Not to Drink] (1984). His film "I Am a Delinquent" was not only a box office success, but marked the beginning of a new wave in Venezuelan cinema. In effect, its point of view, denouncing the material and psychological conditions of Venezuelan society, cemented his work as a prominent part of the national cinema

Películas

Agua que no has de beber
Director
One of the delivery men and three workers from a water bottling plant discover that the owners, due to the depletion of the spring, are using common water. The four friends think about denouncing the scam, but realizing that they would leave all the workers in the street, they decide to form a competing company based on the same ruse.
Retén de Catia
Director
Venezuelan movie
Los Criminales
Screenplay
Two young men decide to rob a residence believing it uninhabited, once inside the homeowners and another couple maintain a perverse game as fun for Sunday. One of the young enters the house but is cornered and subjected to all sorts of harassment and abuse.
Los Criminales
Director
Two young men decide to rob a residence believing it uninhabited, once inside the homeowners and another couple maintain a perverse game as fun for Sunday. One of the young enters the house but is cornered and subjected to all sorts of harassment and abuse.
Compañero de viaje
Screenplay
La película relata violentos dramas de caudillismo y odio en un pueblo de los Andes Venezolanos. Expresa los conflictos y pasiones de aquellos que viven encerrados entre las altas montañas, donde la violencia es como un destino inevitable. Basada en la obra homónima de Orlando Araujo.
Compañero de viaje
Director
La película relata violentos dramas de caudillismo y odio en un pueblo de los Andes Venezolanos. Expresa los conflictos y pasiones de aquellos que viven encerrados entre las altas montañas, donde la violencia es como un destino inevitable. Basada en la obra homónima de Orlando Araujo.
Reincidente: Soy un Delincuente, parte 2
Director
Ramon Antonio Brizuela is a criminal whose life passes between rounds, parties and showdowns. Recognized by a witness during an assault, he is taken to jail where he becomes aware of the unfair and corrupt judicial system.
Reincidente: Soy un Delincuente, parte 2
Adaptation
Ramon Antonio Brizuela is a criminal whose life passes between rounds, parties and showdowns. Recognized by a witness during an assault, he is taken to jail where he becomes aware of the unfair and corrupt judicial system.
Soy un delincuente
Screenplay
La película cuenta la historia de Ramón Antonio Brizuela, quien desde su infancia tiene que lidiar con la violencia desenfrenada y las drogas, el sexo y el robo de una barriada de Caracas. A partir de la delincuencia, Ramón pasa a serias actividades de pandillas y robos. Crece hasta convertirse en un joven duro y seguro de sí mismo que está endurecido por la violencia. Sus opiniones cambian cuando el hermano de su prometida es asesinado en un robo.
Soy un delincuente
Director
La película cuenta la historia de Ramón Antonio Brizuela, quien desde su infancia tiene que lidiar con la violencia desenfrenada y las drogas, el sexo y el robo de una barriada de Caracas. A partir de la delincuencia, Ramón pasa a serias actividades de pandillas y robos. Crece hasta convertirse en un joven duro y seguro de sí mismo que está endurecido por la violencia. Sus opiniones cambian cuando el hermano de su prometida es asesinado en un robo.
Soy un delincuente
Cinematography
La película cuenta la historia de Ramón Antonio Brizuela, quien desde su infancia tiene que lidiar con la violencia desenfrenada y las drogas, el sexo y el robo de una barriada de Caracas. A partir de la delincuencia, Ramón pasa a serias actividades de pandillas y robos. Crece hasta convertirse en un joven duro y seguro de sí mismo que está endurecido por la violencia. Sus opiniones cambian cuando el hermano de su prometida es asesinado en un robo.
La Virgen de Chiquinquirá
Director
A Marian devotion is born when a Venezuelan woman finds an image and people come to the protection of the Virgin during a plague.