Known for Acting
The Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo and the Taking of Puerto Cabello are the protagonists of this feature film directed by Garmen Monteverde.
"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.
Under the command of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, on June 24, 1821, the patriotic army fought to the death against the forces loyal to the Spanish crown with the goal of achieving, at all costs, the independence of Venezuela.
Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain Alejandro Godoy take charge as prosecutor. Several political motives mean that the case must definitively be drawn to a close. Godoy discovers that a large part of the documentation produced during the original inquiry has been destroyed. With his own life in danger, Godoy discovers a highly intricate plot that put an end to Sucre's life.
.Un periodista se introduce clandestinamente en la celda de Miranda, en la Carraca el 10 de Julio de 1816. El joven periodista urge al generalísimo para que le conceda una entrevista, con el objeto de propagar su pensamiento anticolonialista en cierto periódico de vanguardia que se edita furtivamente en Cádiz. Miranda, viejo zorro de la geopolítica internacional desde el siglo pasado, desconfía del impetuoso muchacho, quien poco a poco se va ganando su confianza hasta que el cautivo accede a concederle la entrevista.Aquí comienza un viaje retrospectivo de la vida del generalísimo donde la vuelta al pasado, a los momentos formativos más trascendentes de la construcción del joven, del hombre, del seductor, del soldado español, del ilustrado, el desertor, el independentista, el político, el guerrero, el espía, el contrabandista, el hereje, el conspirador y el precursor, se narran para develarnos la magnitud de Francisco de Miranda, quizás por siempre el más universal de los venezolanos.
