The House of Water (1984)
Overview
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.
Cast
Franklin Vírgüez
Cruz Elías Salmerón Acosta
Hilda Vera
La madre
Doris Wells
Asunción
Elba Escobar
Alicia Plaza
Henry Zakka
Recommendations
Don de Dios
Until the End of the World
Prayers for the Stolen
Mexicali
A Father's Miracle
Come Sunday
The Young One
The Artist and the Model
Our Time
Light It Up
What Maisie Knew
The King of Havana
The Color of Friendship
Lorelei
The Padre
Vanya on 42nd Street
El Chicano
The House on Carroll Street
All Day and a Night
Kamchatka