Sangrador

Alternative title: Bleeder
Synopsis: Latin American exploitation film loosely based on Macbeth and set in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century. Maximiliano (Alvarado) is a good man who has fallen in with a bandit clan. But after three mysterious women tell him that he will never die at the hand of another man, Maximiliano falls prey to his own arrogance and insecurities, and begins to doubt the wisdom of the clan leader, Duran. Maximiliano’s wife (Gomez) plants the notion in her husband’s mind that he would be better off without Duran, and Maximiliano plans to take the life of his one-time friend. Courtney Lehman (op cit) notes ‘the film is laced with over-the-top violence, gratuitous nudity and South American stereotypes’.
Language: Spanish (Venezuela)
Country: Venezuela
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 2000
Duration: 90 mins

Director

Leonardo Henriquez

Producer

Cinematographer

Screenplay

Music

Cast

Notes: Made for less than $300,000
Reviews: Lehmann, Courtney ‘Film Adaptations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. p. 104, entry 400.

Stratton, David. Variety (20 November 2000), p. 21

Name: Leonardo Henriquez
Email: sangrador@cantv.net
Address: Jefe del Departamento de Realizacion
Escuelo des Medios Audiovisuales
Universidad de los Andes
Bogota
Colombia

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