The House of Water

Set in the 1920s in Venezuela, this political melodrama by Jacobo Penzo follows the decision of the fictional Cruz Elías León (Franklin Virguéz), a young Venezuelan poet, to give up a life of social and possibly mainstream political advancement to go back to his home and family in an isolated fishing village and combat the despotic military dictator in charge of the country.

Director: Jacobo Penzo

Cast: Franklin Vírgüez, Hilda Vera, Doris Wells, Elba Escobar, Alicia Plaza, Giles Bickford, Eduardo Gil, Edgar Serrano

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