César Bolívar

César Agusto Bolívar Masso (Caracas, September 4, 1944 – May 31, 2024) was a Venezuelan filmmaker, writer, actor, and educator. He produced numerous works that established him as an emblematic figure of the New Venezuelan Cinema, with films such as Domingo de resurrección (1982) and Homicidio culposo (1984). He directed several successful dramatized television series, including Sangre azul and El Ciclo de Oro de Rómulo Gallegos, which had an impact not only on the Venezuelan audience but also internationally. His life partner was the renowned writer, screenwriter, and producer Pilar Romero.

Works

Más allá del silencio

Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.

Release Date1985-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

The Burning of Judas

Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group robs the same bank and Carmona is shot to death defending it when he has no other choice but to act as a policeman. Soon after, his image becomes a symbol for the police and he is honored, but his identity is found out. Meanwhile, in the neighborhood where he grew up his effigy is burned as he is now considered a traitor.

Release Date1974-11-20

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count4

Sacred and Obscene

Pedro Zamora (Miguelangel Landa) is a former guerrilla who returns to Caracas and moves to a pension as a tenant. Despite appearances, he has come to fulfill a secret mission to its ultimate consequences.

Release Date1975-07-23

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Manslaughter

A police drama that chronicles the efforts of a police officer to uncover an unexplained murder case that blends the lives of two women and a theater actor, the victim of an "artistic" shot, part of a play.

Release Date1984-06-27

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Amor de Papel

Release Date1993-07-28

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Ifigenia, la película

María Eugenia Alonso, almost a woman, still an adolescent, returns from Europe to impose the light of her reason on that of her old house, a temple of boredom, where, as in the ancient and moist churches, the old smell of traditions and race floats.

Release Date1987-05-13

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator

Vote Count1

Domingo de resurrección

A middle class family goes to the beach to spend Easter

Release Date1982-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Bodas de Papel

Esther and Gustavo are celebrating seven years of happy marriage. Two beautiful children and a comfortable home in a residential area backs the stability of the still young couple, a conventional model of marriage where nothing seems to disturb their harmonious coexistence.

Release Date1979-06-13

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Cosita Rica

Cosita Rica is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. This telenovela lasted 270 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International. Fabiola Colmenares and Colombian actor Rafael Novoa starred as the main protagonists while Chiquinquirá Delgado, Carlos Cruz, Daniel Alvarado and Nohely Arteaga starred as the main antagonists.

Release Date2003-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count271

Vote Count1

The Flock of Angels

Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended.

Release Date1979-07-10

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count3

Juan Topocho

Bittersweet comedy by Cesar Bolivar about a quiet and humble villager who becomes a faith healer.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ciudad Bendita

Release Date2006-07-25

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Crab

Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) of the Technical Judicial Police is assigned to the kidnapping of a child of the upper class of Caracas. The details of the kidnapping the attention of Leon, as there is no evidence of violence in the child's home, or witnesses to the abduction. Based on that Leon believes that the hijackers knew the boy and soon begins to suspect several young people from wealthy families of Caracas.

Release Date1982-04-22

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

La mujer perfecta

The history of different women in a country where beauty and fame are all that matter.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Corpus Christi

Shortly before the celebration of the Festival, the leader of the brotherhood of Devils dancing appears dead. Milton Ventura, police and brother of the deceased, returns to the village, after 30 years of absence, to clarify the case. Confronting the interests that oppose him and the demons of their past, Milton discovers that his brother's death involves a painful expose truth.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Agonia

The period of transition between life and death. The extreme suffering. The last phase of life or the first phase of death. Pain and affliction Slow or fast It's not the time. It is the intensity. The agony of a nation that seems to be living its last days in the middle of a social outbreak, protests and repressions.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Chévere o la victoria de Wellington

A young man roams the streets of Caracas.

Release Date1971-03-17

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Tango Bar

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.

Release Date2024-03-07

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

The Smoking Fish

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.

Release Date1977-01-02

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count13

Muchacho solitario

Two cousins learn the value of life through a singing competition, which earns them the money to pay all debts of their family.

Release Date1998-12-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Carmen

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.

Release Date1978-10-11

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count1

Colt Comando 5.56

Maverick-y cop takes down drug-dealers despite PD corruption and governmental complicity.

Release Date1986-01-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Muerte en Alto Contraste

Gabriel, a cop who seeks justice by his own hand, begins in a relationship with Raquel, the daughter of a corrupt police implicated in the death of his parents.

Release Date2010-11-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma

Documentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40 years after the premiere of the film. Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.

Release Date2021-01-28