Héctor Duvauchelle

Acting

Héctor Duvauchelle

Born — Died

1932-12-08 — 1983-12-24

Place of birth

Bulnes, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Héctor Duvauchelle Concha (Bulnes, Chile, December 8, 1932 – Caracas, Venezuela, December 24, 1983) was a Chilean actor who received the Municipal Film Award of Caracas in 1983. Following the 1973 coup d’état in Chile, he went into exile in Venezuela with his siblings, Humberto and María Elena Duvauchelle. Settling in Caracas, he built a prolific career in theatre, film, and television that continued until his murder in 1983.

Known for

Portable Country poster
7.0

Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Adriano González León, the film centers on Andrés Barazarte, a disillusioned man from a wealthy landowning family, who grapples with his personal and political identity in the midst of Venezuela's tumultuous social changes and engages in the guerrilla. He reflects on his life, his family's decline, and the broader struggle for power in a country torn between tradition and revolution.The story unfolds as Andrés is tasked with transporting a mysterious package. This journey becomes a metaphor for his search for meaning and a confrontation with his family’s, and his country's, violent past. His recollections weave together with present events, creating a complex tapestry of memory and history.

Portable Country

1979

The Suitcase poster
5.1

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

The Suitcase

2008

Manoa poster
7.0

The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles and weakens in the telling. Although the two compatriots both live in the capital, Caracas, and both love music, they have a need to go out into the rest of the country and discover their roots. As big-city dwellers, they are limited in their perspectives, though this excursion into other areas of Venezuela may prove more illuminating to them than to a foreign audience.

Manoa

1980

No artwork available
NR

A poetic film that records the excavations carried out by Swiss ethnologist Jean Christian Spahni at the mouth of the Loa River. Through the bone remains and objects found, the testimony of the Chango indigenous people is revealed.

Aquí vivieron

1964

Eloy poster
8.0

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.

Eloy

1969

A Long Journey poster
6.9

The death of his newborn brother will cause a child from the poor neighborhoods of Santiago to walk around the city with the lost cardboard wings that the dead baby lost after the wake, trying to return them to him with the illusion that his little brother can fly to heaven.

A Long Journey

1967

Film credits

1980s · 2 titles

1970s · 2 titles

1960s · 5 titles

No artwork available
NR

A poetic film that records the excavations carried out by Swiss ethnologist Jean Christian Spahni at the mouth of the Loa River. Through the bone remains and objects found, the testimony of the Chango indigenous people is revealed.

Aquí vivieron

1964

Eloy poster
8.0

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.

Eloy

1969

A Long Journey poster
6.9

The death of his newborn brother will cause a child from the poor neighborhoods of Santiago to walk around the city with the lost cardboard wings that the dead baby lost after the wake, trying to return them to him with the illusion that his little brother can fly to heaven.

A Long Journey

1967

Return to Silence poster
6.5

After living many years in Miami, Bill returns to Chile looking for his brother. One night they meet again and celebrate the event with a night of revelry. The next day, Bill wakes up alone and since then he loses all traces of his brother. Mysteriously a detective appears and offers to help, starting a searching and a succession of misunderstandings.

Return to Silence

1967

Bloody Nitrate poster
5.4

Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.

Bloody Nitrate

1969