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When I Want to Cry, I Don't
5.0 / 10• 1973• 1h 25m•NR• Spanish
CrimeDramaThriller
Storyline
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…
Cast & Crew
Orlando Urdaneta
Victorino Pérez
Lead
Valentín Trujillo
Victorino Peralta
PL
Pedro Laya
Victorino Perdomo
Haydée Balza
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Verónica Castro
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Miguelangel Landa
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Rafael Briceño
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LD
Liliana Durán
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What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Mauricio Walerstein's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. When I Want to Cry, I Don't is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
