When I Want to Cry, I Don't (1973)

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When I Want to Cry, I Don't on IMDb 7.1/10 24 votes

Released:
1973-07-04

Overview:
In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

Director:
Mauricio Walerstein

Runtime:
1h 25min

Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller

  • Cast:
  • Orlando Urdaneta
    as
    Victorino Pérez
  • Valentín Trujillo
    as
    Victorino Peralta
  • Pedro Laya
    as
    Victorino Perdomo
  • Haydée Balza
  • Verónica Castro