When I Want to Cry, I Don’t (1973) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1973 · 85 mins · Spanish

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Directed by

Mauricio Walerstein

Starring

Verónica Castro, Miguelangel Landa, Valentín Trujillo, Orlando Urdaneta, Rafael Briceño, Haydée Balza

In 1948 Venezuela three boys named Victorino are born: Pérez, a mulatto son of poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle‑class communist; and Peralta, from a bourgeois family. On his 18th birthday Pérez escapes prison with a fake rage attack, while Peralta flaunts a new car. Perdomo receives a young woman and later joins bushwhackers planning a bank robbery. Pérez spirals into robbery, murder and affairs as his father tries to intervene. The film follows their intertwined paths of crime, class tension, and lost innocence.