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

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 Date:2024-03-07

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

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 Date:2010-11-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

La mujer perfecta

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

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Ciudad Bendita

Release Date:2006-07-25

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

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 Date:2003-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:271

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 Date:1998-12-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Amor de Papel

Release Date:1993-07-28

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

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 Date:1987-05-13

Department:Camera

Job:Camera Operator

Vote Count:1

Colt Comando 5.56

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

Release Date:1986-01-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1985-06-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

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 Date:1984-06-27

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

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 Date:1982-04-22

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Domingo de resurrección

A middle class family goes to the beach to spend Easter

Release Date:1982-04-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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. When they resume, Ingrid throws herself into space from the top floor of the campus

Release Date:1979-07-10

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:3

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 Date:1979-06-13

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Juan Topocho

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

Release Date:1979-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:1978-10-11

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1977-01-02

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:12

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 Date:1975-07-23

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

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 Date:1974-11-20

Department:Camera

Job:Camera Operator

Vote Count:4

Chévere o la victoria de Wellington

A young man roams the streets of Caracas.

Release Date:1971-03-17

Department:Editing

Job:Editor