Alejo Felipe

Known for Acting

7/17/1943

Santa Cruz de la Palma, España

Biography

Alejo Felipe Vargas (Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, July 17, 1943 - Venezuela, June 3, 2015) was a Spanish actor who developed a notable career in the performing arts, as well as in television and film. He also ventured into voice acting in Venezuela, contributing to anime, animated series, films, and, above all, advertising and narration.

Known For (26 credits)

Movie

Vimazoluleka

2017

Year 1966 Vimazoluleka is the first play that Levy Rossell staged at the Ateneo de Caracas (Quinta Ramia) starting on August 18, 1966. He moved to the auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering and from there to the Aula Magna. He won a scholarship to study in New York and staged it in English for five months off Broadway. He returned to Caracas and showed it throughout the 70s and 90s. He gave it that title from the first words of the names of his close classmates: Vicente Amengual, María Angelina Rodríguez, Zobeida Ramos, Luis Kolster, Levy Rossell and Carlos Hernandez.

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Cabrujas en el país del disimulo

2017

Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.

2.0

Movie

Secreto de Confesión

2013

A homicide detective traumatized by the death of his father has to investigate a series of strange murders, while the hit man responsible for them confesses to a priest that he will be his next victim.

6.9

Movie

The Liberator

2013

Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.

7.0

Movie

Er relajo der Loro

2012

The film tells the story of a parrot who after being sold to traffickers of animals as a child at the time of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, passes from hand to hand all his life and changing its name depending on your business, while being observed before his eyes the evolution of Venezuela for 50 years (1950 to 2000).

4.5

Movie

Eternal Ashes

2011

ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.

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Silva Rivas, divorciada

2005

This is not a “divorce” story, but rather the complex and proactive paths a young woman takes to rebuild her life. Silvia will open her heart to love and experience a new dimension of her growth into adulthood to become a strong woman and an amazing person. As she follows her heart, fate will play its part and she will have to choose between life as it unfolds or take a huge turn to save her love for her son in ways she could never have imagined.

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La Rumba De Fin De Mundo

2005

In one corner of the world, the imminent arrival of an asteroid shakes the foundations of reality. Life, once predictable and routine, transforms into a frenetic search for meaning and celebration. 'La Rumba de Fin de Mundo' immerses us in a chaotic and moving week, where a diverse group of people confront the finitude of existence.

4.0

Movie

Love in Concrete

2004

Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.

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La pluma del arcángel

2002

In a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator.

5.5

Movie

Manuela Sáenz

2000

In 1856, a whaler arrives in Paita, Peru; on board is Herman Melville, who is astonished to learn that Manuela Sáenz, for eight years the lover of Simón Bolívar, is still alive. He calls on her, and although she will not talk to him about her life, his visit sends her to her chest of Bolívar's letters. As she reads them, the sepia-toned present gives way to flashbacks in color: she meets 'the Liberator' in 1822, becomes his lover, and also becomes a colonel in his military movement to realize the 'Gran Colombia', one nation across South America. As plague (brought by the ship) closes in on Manuela's household, so does her tempestuous story move toward Bolívar's betrayal and death.

4.5

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Last Cut

1997

A group of boys with a strong desire to escape from their hometown and discover the rest of the world. They escape on a boat called "The Last Cut". However, they find a man on board and they hire him as a sailor. The guys ignore the past of the man. The sailor is actually the former owner of the boat, and ten years earlier had allegedly killed his wife...