
Román Chalbaud
Biography
Román Chalbaud was born on October 10, 1931 in Mérida, Venezuela. He is a director and writer, known for Pandemonium, la capital del infierno (1997), El pez que fuma (1977) and La quema de Judas (1974).
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Pianista suicida
Luisa cheats on Guillermo with Sebastian, who cheats on Ximena. When Luisa goes missing after both couples return from a double date night, the whole house of cards starts tumbling down.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Benito Zamora, a conspirator against the Perezjimenista government, uses Leonor Montes, a young vedette friend of a colonel, to find information. National Security is pursuing Benito to dismantle the plot.

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Documentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40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 Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A thesis on the history, the successes and failures of Venezuelan and Latin American cinema as a whole; demonstrating how little interaction there is between Ibero-American cinema

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The political leader Alberto Carnevali, secretly returns to his country to plot against the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. The Intense subversive struggle brings the torture of many of his comrades.

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A living room, two video cameras, an armchair, two televisions and a mirror: domestic daily life in which colleagues, family and friends come together to decipher the life, personality and artistic trajectory of one of the most important actresses of Venezuelan Cinema: Hilda Vera