The House of Water

Overview

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.

Cast

Franklin Vírgüez

Cruz Elías Salmerón Acosta

Hilda Vera

La madre

Doris Wells

Asunción

Elba Escobar

Alicia Plaza

Giles Bickford

Primer gringo

Eduardo Gil

Edgar Serrano

Martha Pabón

Henry Zakka