Edgardo Román

Acting

Edgardo Román

Born — Died

1950-08-04 — 2022-01-07

Place of birth

Bogotá, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

José Edgardo Román (Bogotá, August 4, 1950-Ib., January 7, 2022) was a Colombian actor. He began his professional career in 1971.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 5 titles

La toma de la embajada poster
6.3

Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.

La toma de la embajada

2000

Nochebuena poster
NR

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Nochebuena

2008

The History of the Pink Trunk poster
6.0

In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with an inquisitive journalist Hipólito Mosquera while trying to solve the mysterious case. Nobody knows who the girl is, or who put her in the trunk. The things turn bad when Mosquera publish the news in the local newspaper. With the help of a bartender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?

The History of the Pink Trunk

2005

Karmma poster
7.9

In the plains of Latin America, Guaco, a humble landowner, witnesses a son's betrayal driven by greed, leading to the downfall of a respected family.

Karmma

2006

Bolívar, The Hero poster
4.7

This animated film tells the life story of the liberator Simón Bolívar: from his birth in Caracas and his education, to his travels, battles and the struggle against Spanish rule for Latin American independence. In this narrative, historical conflicts are simplified through fictional characters like “Tiránico,” symbolizing Spanish evil and domination, and “Américo,” who represents slavery and the people’s yearning for freedom.

Bolívar, The Hero

2003

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Chronicle of a Death Foretold poster
7.3

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1987

Race to Danger poster
5.2

A sailor who landed on the ground only for a bank deposit found himself involved in a spin of misadventures and vicissitudes. He will have to retrieve his ten thousand dollars (to invest in the opening of a Tahiti bar) before the ship resumes.

Race to Danger

1988

Pisingaña poster
3.0

A young peasant woman moves to Bogotá in search of work and ends up as a domestic servant for a middle-class family, where she witnesses the breakdown of a conflict-ridden marriage. At the same time, she faces the aftermath of rural violence while trying to adapt to life in the big city.

Pisingaña

1986

A Matter of Honour poster
6.8

The teacher and the butcher of a small town in the tropical Andes, are both in love with the same woman (Miriam). They decide to duel for her. Everyone in town catch the notice, except of course for Miriam. The Mayor then decides to manipulate the event to make it political.

A Matter of Honour

1988

A Man of Principle poster
6.9

Dramatisation of the massacre which took place in Colombia in 1948, as a result of conflict between conservative and liberal forces, and concentrating on the character of a former cheesemonger-turned professional killer.

A Man of Principle

1984

A Time to Die poster
6.9

A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his village. But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the court's justice, but not with some villagers. There are some who still seek true justice.

A Time to Die

1986

The Ambassador of India poster
7.3

Jaime Flórez, a shrewd provincial, has a stroke of luck when he is treated as a king in a town that confuses him with an important international diplomat.

The Ambassador of India

1986

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