Acting
Apr 30, 1970
Salvador del Solar
Acting
Biography
Salvador del Solar (born in Lima in 1970) is a Peruvian actor, director, and lawyer. After graduating with a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and studying at Alberto Ísola's workshop, he rose to international fame starring in the acclaimed film Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1999). Expanding his career, he wrote and directed the film Magallanes (2015), establishing himself as a prominent filmmaker. He has also been involved in Peruvian politics, serving as Minister of Culture (2017) and President of the Council of Ministers (2019).
Feature Films (20)
Julius is an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1940s. He lives in a palace with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years go by, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices.
A World For Julius
María Fe, still single but not so sought after, faces the existential crisis and the blank page as any mature and sensible woman would: by getting involved with the wrong guy.
How to Deal with a Heartbreak
The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
The last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso.
Courage
Impulsado por la curiosidad y el afán de conocer nuevos mundos, el joven Alois, deja su patria bávara y, pasando por las profundidades del Walchensee (lago cerca de Munich), emerge de las aguas del lago Titicaca, en Bolivia. En Copacabana, Alois se casa con Elena con quien explora el enigmático mundo andino; tienen un único hijo, piloto civil, que muere muy joven en un accidente aéreo, dejando huérfana a su hija Alfonsina y viuda a Rosa, su bella esposa, que trabaja de azafata. Algunos años después muere también Alois, dejando completamente solas a las tres mujeres. Alfonsina, ahora una linda muchacha de 14 años, crece en un ambiente de mezcla cultural, entre música, dirndl * , jarras de cerveza, sincretismo andino y ch´allas. ... *dirndl: Traje típico de Bavaria
Write Me - Postcards to Copacabana
A mestizo (mixed race) Spanish and Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate.
El bien esquivo
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Greetings to the Devil
The plot revolves around a love triangle between Bernie, Muriel's husband, who hires the services of a detective named Oso to investigate his wife. To this is added the participation of Felix, who is the supposed lover.
Muero por Muriel
After meeting in an anger management group, two women embark on a journey of empowerment and friendship when they set out to expose a surgeon with a suspicious reputation.
Women on the Edge
A young boy travels back to the 17th century to battle pirates off the coast of Peru.
Pirates in Callao
A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.
The Vanished Elephant
Television & Series (15)
Follows the life of the three members of "Los Prisioneros" during key moments of their careers. As they become an iconic band, and still today resonate.
Los Prisioneros
Amores De Mercado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica. This show was retitled simply Amores in mid-run. Head writer Basilio Alvarez was replaced by Eric Vonn and the storylines and characters went in a new direction. When Telemundo reaired the show in daytime in 2009, the shorter title was used for the entire series. BTV started to air this telenovela on November 22, 2006 in Bulgaria.
Amores de mercado
It's the year 2091. The best seven gamers in the world are recruited by a powerful company to travel to the moon of Calisto and play against each other at an extreme video game. But everything will change when one of them, discovers the sinister truth that hides within the game that may put their own lives in danger.
