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Marcelo Romo
Marcelo Romo (23 April 1941 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1969. Selected filmography References External links * 1941 births 2018 deaths Chilean male film actors Chilean actor-politicians Male actors from Santiago {{Chile-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Jung
Julio Humberto Gonzalo Benito Jung del Favero (born 21 March 1942) is a Chilean actor. Selected filmography * '' Amnesia'' (1994) * ''Coronation A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head. The term also generally refers not only to the physical crowning but to the whole ceremony wherein the act of crowning occurs, along with the presentation of ot ...'' (2000) * '' The Dancer and the Thief '' (2009) * '' Cachimba'' (2004) * '' El regalo'' (2008) * '' Los versos del olvido'' (2017) * '' Y de pronto el amanecer'' (2017) * '' Hecho bolsa'' (2019) as President of the company References External links * 1942 births Living people Chilean male film actors Chilean male telenovela actors Chilean male television actors 20th-century Chilean male actors 21st-century Chilean male actors Chilean male comedians Chilean actor-politicians {{Chile-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackal Of Nahueltoro
''Jackal of Nahueltoro'' ( es, El Chacal de Nahueltoro) is a 1969 Chilean drama film directed by Miguel Littín, based on the true story of Jorge Valenzuela Torres, a poor farmer who, during a drunken rampage in 1960, murdered his partner and five of her children. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival, winning the OCIC prize. It is considered by some to the best Chilean film of all time because it questions the morality of the death penalty and the social hypocrisy of trying to rehabilitate a man only to later execute him. Plot Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres is a farmer who suffers from abuse and exploitation from childhood, leading to alcoholism. As an adult, he receives help from a poor woman named Rosa Rivas, who has five children from a previous marriage. Eventually, he marries her. However, in August 1960, while under the influence of alcohol, he gets into a fight with her and ends up murdering her and all of her children. He is arrested the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enough Praying
''Enough Praying'' ''( es, Ya no basta con rezar)'' is a 1973 Chilean drama film directed by Aldo Francia. The film tells the story of a priest facing poverty and social disorders that occurred during the presidency of Eduardo Frei Montalva. The protagonist, Father Jaime (The Priest), must constantly struggle between his obedience to the hierarchy of the Church and his desire to take a more active role in the workers' revolution that is being planned in the port of Valparaíso in 1967. The promotional poster for the film was quite controversial at the time since it portrays a priest holding his left hand and about to throw a stone with the other hand, with the apparent intent of instigating a violent rebellion. The context of the film's release was within a period of rapidly increasing political polarization and economic instability in Chile, with some fears of a potential breakout of civil war and the collapse of civil society. Given the film's portrayal of the struggles of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shipwrecked
''The Shipwrecked'' ( es, Los náufragos) is a 1994 Chilean drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Aron is an exiled Chilean whose father has died during his years of absence, and whose brother is one of the thousands of 'disappeared'. Aron, back in his country, feels like a castaway lost in a place he doesn't recognize, trying to understand what happened to his family and to the country he once knew. Cast * Luis Alarcón as Sebastian Mola * Bastián Bodenhöfer as Ur * Tennyson Ferrada as Rene * Benjamin Littin * Marcelo Romo as Aron * Valentina Vargas Valentina Vargas (born December 31, 1964) is a Chilean actress. She began, and spent most of her career working in France. Biography Vargas began her career in the dramatic arts by joining the workshop of Tania Balaschova in Paris and later at ... as Isol References External links * * 1994 films 1994 drama films Chilean dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia (telenovela)
''Emilia'' is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Venevisión which aired it between 1979 and 1980. Elluz Peraza and Eduardo Serrano starred as the main protagonists. Plot Emilia is a young middle-class seamstress who is struggling to work hard in order to support her grandmother, her sister Nereida and her brother Chente. Emilia's family lost their vast fortune, but despite the fact that they are struggling to make ends meet, they cannot resign themselves to accept poverty, as they dream of regaining their former wealth. In the same neighborhood lives Tano, a young man who is in love with Emilia, though Emilia only views him as a friend. Each member of her family has their own path. Her grandmother lives in a fantasy world, Chente enters the criminal world while Nereida becomes the mistress to a rich, old man called Pipo who is married to Yolanda Aguirre. It turns out that Nereida's older lover is the father of Emilia's boyfriend, Alejandro. Alejand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubí Rebelde
Rubi Rebelde is a 1989 Venezuelan telenovela produced by Radio Caracas Televisión based on the radionovelas ''La gata'' and ''Enamorada'' by Cuban author Inés Rodena. This version was written by Carlos Romero, Perla Farías, María Antonieta Gómez and Boris Izaguirre. This telenovela lasted 172 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International. Mariela Alcalá and Jaime Araque starred as the main protagonists with Joana Benedek, Adolfo Cubas as the main antagonists. Synopsis The slums held no apparent future for Rubi, a young girl abandoned and exploited. Victor lives on the other side of town from Rubi. A minor accident brings them together, sparking an instant attraction. Víctor's family is torn by secret ambitions and bitterness. His mother is an angry woman full of resentment. She battles a hostile relationship with Victor's paternal grandmother, who controls the family's wealth. Victor's brother, with his villainous ideas and evil notions, is much like his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquelarre (telenovela)
''Aquelarre'' (lit: ''Witches' Sabbath'') is a Chilean television drama series created by Hugo Morales and directed by María Eugenia Rencoret, and Víctor Huertathat originally aired on Television Nacional de Chile (TVN) and TV Chile from August 4, to December 29, 1999. Plot This is a love story between Emilia (Sigrid Alegría) and Juan Pablo (Álvaro Rudolphy) who are members of two feuding families. This TV series is inspired by ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' chronicles which talk of the occurrence of a strange event. Aquelarre is located in central Chile. For the past thirty years only females are born amongst the town's inhabitants, no male has been born within its boundaries. All men are thirty or more and those with less have come from outside of town. Three families control everything. Elena Vergara (Coca Guazzini) is a chemist who has developed a substance that prevents the birth of males. She has a son, Juan Pablo, who lives in Holland and has arrived back in town and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amores De Mercado (Chilean Telenovela)
''Amores de mercado'' (lit: ''Market Lovers'') is a Chilean television series created by Fernando Aragón and Arnaldo Madrid, that aired on Televisión Nacional de Chile, TVN and TV Chile from August 6, to December 28, 2001, starring Álvaro Rudolphy, Ángela Contreras, Luciano Cruz-Coke, and Alejandra Fosalba. Plot Pedro Solis (Álvaro Rudolphy) is a young lower-middle class waiter, known as Pelluco by his family and friends. One day he finds a man, Rodolfo Ruttenmeyer, identical to him. Without finding an explanation for the strange fact, Pelluco assumes the identity of Rodolfo, as he had an accident and lost his memory. Rodolfo is received and cared by Pelluco's family, who believes he is actually Pelluco. Pelluco, in the other hand, tries to find the answer to what he saw that day, while living as a businessman. He falls in love with Fernanda (Ángela Contreras), the lover of his stepbrother Ignacio (Luciano Cruz-Coke). Fernanda cheats on Pelluco with his stepbrother, but when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
