Cristian Mercado

Cristian Mercado

La Paz, Bolivia 15 Credits

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.

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CIELO

CIELO

2025

as Rodrigo

10.0
Acting

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 p...

La Lengua Desnuda

La Lengua Desnuda

2024

as Nicolás

Acting

At the threshold of fantasy and magical realism, Barbara and Victoria explore two opposing worldviews. Navigating dreamlike landscapes, they seek to f...

The Old Soldiers

The Old Soldiers

2022

as Guillermo

Acting

Based on an unpublished novel by Jorge Sanjinés

Pseudo

Pseudo

2020

8.1
Acting

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, ...

Santa Clara

Santa Clara

2019

as Santiago Moreno

6.0
Acting
The Longest Night

The Longest Night

2019

as Julián

5.5
Acting

A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a dru...

The Goalkeeper

The Goalkeeper

2018

as Cacho

7.6
Acting

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...

Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande

Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande

2016

as Manuel Ascencio Padilla

7.9
Acting
Forgotten

Forgotten

2014

as Hugo

5.4
Acting

José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memories of his involvement in Operation Condor and inva...

Blackthorn

Blackthorn

2011

as General of the Bolivian Army

6.6
Acting

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 an...

Atacama's 33

Atacama's 33

2011

as Quechua

7.9
Acting

A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.

Undertow

Undertow

2009

as Miguel

7.5
Acting

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Che: Part Two

Che: Part Two

2008

as Inti (Guido Peredo Liegue)

6.7
Acting

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...

Los Andes no creen en Dios

Los Andes no creen en Dios

2007

as Paco

6.2
Acting

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....

El atraco

El atraco

2004

6.8
Acting