When I Want to Cry, I Don't (Cuando Quiero Llorar no Lloro) 51 years old

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

Credits

Haydée Balza as

Valentin Trujillo as Victorino Peralta

Orlando Urdaneta as Victorino Pérez

Verónica Castro as

When I Want to Cry, I Don't Cast

Name	Character
Haydée Balza She was 27, now 78 years old
Valentin Trujillo He was 22, 55 years old when he died	as Victorino Peralta
Orlando Urdaneta He was 26, now 78 years old	as Victorino Pérez
Verónica Castro She was 20, now 72 years old

When I Want to Cry, I Don't Crew

Name	Department
Mauricio Walerstein as Director. He was 28 (71) years old when He died	Directing
Mauricio Walerstein as Producer. He was 28 (71) years old when He died	Production
Mauricio Walerstein as Screenplay. He was 28 (71) years old when He died	Writing
Román Chalbaud as Screenplay. He was 41 (now 93) years old	Writing

When I Want to Cry, I Don't (51 years)

Release day: Wednesday, July 04, 1973
Runtime: 85 minutes