When I Want to Cry, I Don’t

When I Want to Cry, I Don’t

Year: 1973

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Mauricio Walerstein

DramaCrimeThriller

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.

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