Nelson RodriguezFilmography

Occupation:: Editor, Screenwriter

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Roble De Olor

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Lia Chapman, Ruben Brenas, Raul Martin, Raquel Rubi

2003
Machin: Toda Una Vida

Crew: Editor

Actors: Antonio Machin, Sara Montiel, Joan Manuel Serrat, Joaquin Sabina, Antonio Gala

2002
El Dia Que Murio El Silencio

Crew: Editor

Actors: Darío Grandinetti, Gustavo Angarita

Synopsis: Italian director Paolo Agazzi spins this deft, witty fable about rural life in Bolivia. The film opens with a traveling actor being discovered making love to the wife of a local bigwig on stage. Years later, the bereaved big shot is so afraid that he is going to lose his gorgeous daughter Celeste Read More

2000
Escrito En El Agua

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jorge Marrale, Marcos Woinski, Noemi Frenkel, Mariano Bertolini, Luciana Gonzalez Costa

Synopsis: Bolivian-born Marcos Loayza directed this Argentine tale of city-teen Manuel, son of a successful chemical engineer father and a photographer mother. Manuel prefers to sit at his computer, so he protests when his parents tell him to go with his father on a visit to his grandfather, a veteran of Read More

1998
Cuestión de Fe

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this moving but lively road picture, three misanthropic friends are contracted by a notorious gangster to create a carved statue depicting the Virgin Mary to celebrate a religious holiday in a remote village upon one of the highest hills in Bolivia. Domingo is the one commissioned to actually Read More

1995
Danzon

Crew: Editor

Actors: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Margarita Isabel, Tito Vasconcelos, Blanca Guerra

Synopsis: Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only color in her life comes from her Wednesday night trips to Mexico City where she dances the danzon with her long-time partner Carmelo. But one night, she goes to dance and Carmelo Read More

9/25/92
Confesion a Laura

Crew: Editor

Actors: Vicky Hernandez

Synopsis: The rioting that erupted in 1948 following the assassination of a popular Colombian presidential candidate forms an ever-present background for this drama. In the story, Santiago and his wife Josefina have been confined to their Bogota apartment by the chaos in the streets, which is growing Read More

1991
Papeles Secundarios

Crew: Editor

Actors: Rosita Fornes, Juan Luis Galiardo, Luisa Perez Nieto, Mario Balmaseda

Synopsis: In Havana, a group of professional stage actors are rehearsing a play. This drama follows their activities onstage and off. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
El Verano de la Senorita Forbes

Crew: Editor

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Francisco Gattorno, Alexis Castanares, Victor Cesar Villalobos, Guadalupe Sandoval

Synopsis: The Mexican/Spanish El Verano de La Senora Forbes (Summer of Miss Forbes) features Hanna Schygulla in the leading role. Schygulla plays a German governess, in charge of two Mexican boys while their parents are absent. The kids despise the governess, who is rigid and tyrannical. They go so far as Read More

1987
Visa USA

Crew: Editor

Actors: Armando Gutierrez, Marcela Agudelo, Eguron Raul Cuesta, Martinez Lucy Tello, Elios Fernandez

Synopsis: Mixed feelings about life in the U.S. filter through this drama featuring Adolfo (Armando Gutierrez), a young Colombian man who works in a record store and dreams of going to America and becoming a radio announcer. He does not hold a very high station in life so when he courts his girlfriend Read More

1986
Placido

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jorge Villalon, Mirta Ibarra, Rosita Fornes, Miguel Benavides, Ramoncito Veloz, Jr.

Synopsis: A low-budgeter from Cuba, this undistinguished drama tackles the subject of Placido, a mulatto living under Spanish colonial rule in the 19th century. Placido is a poet by nature and dedicates his time to writing. As he matures, he becomes more aware of the conditions of the slaves working under Read More

1986
Un Hombre De Exito

Crew: Editor

Actors: Cesar Evora, Raquel Revuelta, Daisy Granados, Jorge Trinchet, Mabel Roche

Synopsis: The lives of two brothers take different paths in this Cuban political drama. Javier becomes a successful businessman, while his brother Dario becomes a bomb-planting anarchist caught up in Cuba's political turmoil. The story begins in 1932 and progresses through the early days of Fidel Castro's Read More

1986
Una Novia Para David

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jose Luis Alvarez, María Isabel Díaz, Francisco Gattorno, Edith Massola, Thais Valdes

Synopsis: In an interesting and liberated look at individual choice free of prejudice, David (Jose Luis Alvarez) is a young high-school student who falls for a classmate, Ofelia (Maria Isabel Diaz). There is nothing unusual about teen romances, but Ofelia's plain appearance and overweight condition have Read More

1985
Habanera

Crew: Editor

Actors: Daisy Granados, Ely Menz, Marcia Barreto, Adolfo Llauradó, Miguel Benavides

Synopsis: In this weakly plotted drama about the gradual deterioration of a psychiatrist, Cuban director Pastor Vega has focused on the woman's personal and professional lives, and ignores any political or social undercurrents. Even though Laura Durán (Daisy Granados) is the epitome of a self-confident Read More

1984
Amada

Crew: Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Eslinda Nunez, Cesar Evora, Silvia Planas

Synopsis: Trapped in artificiality because of its stilted, turn-of-the-20th century dialogue -- and therefore distancing its viewers -- Amada is the story of an older woman who falls in love with a younger man but is constrained from reaching out to him because of the stringent social morés of the time. Read More

1984
A Time to Die

Crew: Editor

Actors: Edward Albert, Rod Taylor, Rex Harrison, Linn Stokke, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: In this mystery, a vengeful husband goes looking for the six people who tortured him and then killed his wife. The husband is a WW II vet and one of the killers is now a high-ranking German official. The plot is based on a Mario Puzo story. The film is also titled Seven Graves for Rogan. ~ Sandra Read More

1983
Cecilia

Crew: Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Daisy Granados, Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Nunez

Synopsis: The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long after they took over the island, there are no Read More

1982
Album de Familia

Crew: Associate Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Lucelia Santos, Rubens W. Correa, Dina Sfat

Synopsis: Using Nelson Rodrigues' play as a springboard, director Braz Chediak has made a movie about the multiple incestuous relationships of one family, and their misguided personal demons get worse as time wears on. The message remains essentially erotic, regardless of possible symbolic allusions to the Read More

1981
La Viuda De Montiel

Crew: Editor

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Nelson Villagra, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alejandro Parodi, Katy Jurado

1980
La Tierra y el Cielo

Crew: Editor

Actors: Samuel Claxton, Tito Junco, Jr.

Synopsis: Told with plentiful flashbacks to illumine their history, this Cuban tale tells the story of several Cuban-Haitians from among the tens of thousands who immigrated there in the 1940s in order to earn money to send back home to Haiti. After a while, they were unable to return, and were too poor to Read More

1978
A Dama do Lotacao

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sonia Braga, Nuno Leal Maia, Jorge Doria, Paulo Cesar Pereio, Paulo Villaca

Synopsis: In this sequel to Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Sonia Braga stars as a new wife who copes with her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on buses. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
La Rosa de Los Vientos

Crew: Editor

Actors: Patxi Andion, Nelson Villagra, Asdrubal Melendez, Fernando Birri

Synopsis: Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it Read More

1978
Cantata de Chile

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This Cuban film explores the history of oppression and exploitation in Latin America from the time of the Conquistadors to the CIA-sponsored overthrow of Allende in Chile. Particular emphasis is given to the Chilean army's massacre of striking mineworkers who worked in an English-owned nitrate Read More

1976
La Ultima Cena

Crew: Editor

Actors: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey, Luis Alberto Garcia, José Antonio Rodriguez, Samuel Claxton, Mario Balmaseda

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, the Cuban The Last Supper (La Ultima Cena) has pronounced religious overtones--but not necessarily reverent ones. Based on a purportedly true incident, the film stars Nelson Allegra as an 18th century Cuban landowner. Allegra sees nothing wrong or unusual about keeping Read More

1976
El Otro Francisco

Crew: Editor

Actors: Miguel Benavides, Ramon Veloz, Alina Sanchez, Adolfo Llauradó

Synopsis: The Other Francisco was the first film in a trilogy of films made by Sergio Giral, a black Cuban, about the history of slavery in Cuba. The movie is built around a critique of 19th century abolitionist Anselmo Suarez y Romero's novel, Francisco. Giral takes Suarez y Romero's novel to task for its Read More

1975
Giron

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower wisely decided against mounting an invasion of communist Cuba. Kennedy, his successor, attempted to use exiled Cubans as his proxies in a 1961 infiltration known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion. This Cuban film blends newsreel shots and interviews with participants and Read More

1974
Ustedes Tienen La Palabra

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The defendants in this film are on trial for burning down a forest which was once privately owned, but was expropriated by the Cuban state. Out of pure spite, the exiled former owner apparently had them burn it. The men tell their stories, and the flashbacks which reenact those stories make it Read More

1974
Toda Nudez Sera Castigada

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Brazilian All Nudity Shall Be Punished is just as satirical (and silly) as its title suggests. The story concerns a straight-laced family whose very strict morals have been governed for years by their indomitable matriarch. When the old lady dies, the family tries its best to uphold her Read More

1973
Los Dias del Agua

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This Cuban feature examines the circumstances arising out of a woman's claim to have seen the Virgin Mary and to have been healed by waters from a nearby stream. In an accelerating storm of cynical opportunism, her sincere beliefs are exploited by businessmen, politicians and military men. Rival Read More

1971
La Primera Carga Al Machete

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adolfo Llauradó, Jose Rodriguez

Synopsis: Both Spanish soldiers and Cuban peasants recall the bloody attack by machete-slicing Cubans in the late 19th century. The officers discuss the attack and the implications their defeat will have as they dread the review from Madrid. Soon Cuba would break away from Spain, largely with the help of Read More

1969
Lucia

Crew: Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Nunez, Adela Legra, Adolfo Llauradó, Ramon Brito

Synopsis: Made in Cuba, Lucia tells three stories of three periods in Cuban history, each featuring a heroine named Lucia. The first playlet takes place in 1895: Lucia #1 (Raquel Revlizita) neglects her husband in order to become involved in the war against Spain -- and incidentally, with a handsome young Read More

1969
We Are the Music!

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Rogelio Paris's 1964 documentary We Are the Music provides a systematic overview of the "Golden Age" of indigenous Cuban music (roughly 1940-1960, or before and immediately after the Cuban Revolution). It features extensive footage of Cuban musicians performing in such locales as beaches Read More

1964