Cristian Mercado
Acting
Biography
Cristian Mercado is a Bolivian theater and film actor. In the cinema, he is known for his main role as Falso Conejo in Sena / Quina, the immortality of the crab and as Miguel, fisherman in Undertow (Contracorriente) alongside Manolo Cardona, a film that won the Audience Award for World Cinema - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010.
Place of Birth: La Paz, Bolivia
Known For
CIELO
Santa, an eight-year-old girl from the desolate Bolivian Altiplano, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother from a life of misery into paradise. The two of them made a pact: when her mother passes, the girl would follow the stars and carry her body across the desert toward heaven, a place they are certain is physically real. Crossing the wilderness, Santa encounters a group of female wrestlers that help her on her way. Also, a gruff policeman who arrests Santa but soon suspects she has magical powers. He decides that to achieve his own salvation he must join Santa on her quest beyond the horizon.
Pseudo
A taxi driver from La Paz, out of work and desperate for money, assumes the identity of a passenger — a photographer — and takes his next assignment, not knowing he is actually a hit-man whose next target is a top-ranked government official. He gets caught up in a terrorist operation where nobody is what they claim, including the source financing the assassination plot.
Atacama's 33
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande
Doña Juana Azurduy, widow of Padilla, is visited in November 1825 by the liberators Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre in the city of Chuquisaca.
The Goalkeeper
A former soccer player whose son is in the hospital waiting for an organ transplant and, in his desperation to get money to access a quick surgery, he gets involved in a case of human trafficking.
Undertow
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
El atraco
Che: Part Two
Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.
Blackthorn
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Los Andes no creen en Dios
End of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism, it is charged with a collective euphoria produced by the bewitching mineral. The lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration.
Filmography
as Rodrigo
as Capitán Suárez
as Nicolás
as Guillermo
as Santiago Moreno
as Julián
as Cacho
as Manuel Ascencio Padilla
as Hugo
as General of the Bolivian Army
as Quechua
as Miguel
as Inti (Guido Peredo Liegue)
as Paco