Elba Escobar Movies
- 2005
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Pioneering science fiction author Jules Verne is the hero of this fantasy adventure, which imagines the scribe on a remarkable trip through South America. Growing tired and restless with his home life, Verne (Marco Villarubia) and his close friend Count Ermanno Stradelli (Ronnie Nordenflycht), a scientist with a taste for adventure, set out to explore the Amazon, chartering a ship to sail down the famous river. En route, Verne and Stradelli pick up an extra passenger, a gentleman named Juan who is on the run from pirates, but they soon learn Juan is no gentleman -- he is actually a she, a woman named Juana (Kristin Pardo) who is searching for her long-lost father. While Verne and Stradelli briefly become rivals for the woman's affections, in time they set aside their differences to help her on her quest. 1888: El Extraordinario Viaje De La Santa Isabel (aka 1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel was Venezuela's official submission for the "Best Foreign Language Film" category of the 2005 Academy Awards. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marco Villaruba, Ronnie Nordenflycht, (more)
The current wave of kidnappings in Latin America inspired this tense suspense drama. Martin (Jean Paul Leroux) and Carla (Mía Maestro) are a wealthy young couple who, after a night of club hopping, head back to their car to go home. However, three kidnappers -- Bubu (Pedro Perez), Niga (Carlos Madera), and Trece (Carlos Julio Molina) -- are waiting for them; seeing how free they are with their money, the men figure that Martin and Carla should fetch a decent ransom for their release. The kidnappers demand 20,000 dollars to set Martin and Carla free, and Carla's father (Rubén Blades) struggles to raise the cash, with the criminals insisting upon payment in a mere two hours. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mía Maestro, Rubén Blades, (more)
- 1994
This Venezuelan compilation films features the archives of entrepreneur Edgar J. Anzola who was fascinated by the workings of modern technology. He would roam about the country with a camera and photograph anything interesting. Anzola was an innovator in the making of newsreels, features, radio and records. He was one of the first to own an automobile in Venezuela. He used it to tour around looking for subjects to film. Upon his death, his son Alfredo inherited his film archives. He used that material to create this film. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Elba Escobar, Kristina Wetter, (more)
- 1993
This Venezuelian film closely follows Juan Carlos Gene's two act play. The picture set, in an unnamed South American country, is an emotional examination of two courageous nuns who provide refuge to a rebel soldier. Ana and Ursula are nuns belonging to an order that believes clergy and lay people to be equal. When a rebel soldier, considered an enemy of the state, suddenly appears at their small home, they readily take him in. In time, the nuns arouse the suspicions of Mayor Cerone. Because they are nuns, paragons of the Church, and because he has been having recent difficulties with the Church, Cerone accepts their word and does not search their home. Cerone is concerned about the reputation of his town. The forceful military captain cares nothing for Cerone's town politics and violently searches the nun's house. The rebel is found and shot and both Cerone and Ana must face the consequences. For Ana, they could mean death. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Veronica Oddo, Elba Escobar, (more)
- 1986
Elsa (Elba Escobar) and her friend Miranda (Amparo Grisales) become jealous and violent toward each other as they compete for the sexual affection of the hunk Sergio (Humberto Zurita). Elsa takes comfort in he arms of Miranda's husband Eloy (Daniel Alverado) after Sergio and Miranda run away together. Their lustful desires lead to tragedy in this erotic drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Humberto Zurita, Elba Escobar, (more)
- 1985
The changes in a nation over a ten-year period are implied in this undistinguished and confusing story of three university students, two women and one man, whose variations at love also change through the same decade. The title of the film suggests a consideration of what constitutes "male" or "female" and the possibility that one person could have a little of both. This is a theme that runs throughout the ten-year relationship, as many of the sexual activities of the three lie outside the accepted Venezuelan norms of the day. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Orlando Urdaneta, Elba Escobar, (more)
- 1983
- R
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. During the first half of the story, Cruz is involved in his student career, literary movements, and the beckoning luxuries of a solid social position, but the call of social justice is stronger than the lure of the easy life, and Cruz returns home. Once there, his antigovernment activities lead to his arrest and torture, the latter shown in sequences at the beginning and end of the film with the poet submerged in a water chamber. Unfortunately, Penzo's melodramatic, surface rendering of his revolutionary theme reduces much of the dialogue and characterization to clichés and stereotypes, missing in new insights or perspectives. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Elba Escobar, Doris Wells, (more)
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