The Smoking Fish
“The intimate life of a brothel”
1977•2h 0m•6.9•Released
ComedyDrama
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
Director
Román Chalbaud
Writer
Román Chalbaud, José Ignacio Cabrujas
Languages
Spanish
Studio
Gente de Cine
Cast
Hilda Vera
La Garza
Orlando Urdaneta
Jairo
Haydée Balza
Selva María
Miguelangel Landa
Dimas
Rafael Briceño
Arturo Calderón
Ignacio Navarro
Nelly Meruane
Herminia Valdez
Pilar Romero
La Cucuteña
Carla Luzbel
Nacky Guttman
Virginia Vera
José Salas
Eduardo Cortina
Production
Company
Gente de Cine
Producer
Mauricio Walerstein
Producer
Abigaíl Rojas
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