Bernardo García
Acting
Biography
Born on July 25, 1977, he began his acting studies in 1989 with Colombian actors Maguso and Fernando García. In 1996 he studied music and later vocal technique at the Universidad Javeriana. He has taken workshops in film acrobatics and stage combat. In 2002 he traveled to Chile to attend the Mimodrama and Media Resources Workshop with the Velatropa Group, directed by José Luis Vivallo. His career in film began in 1998 in the Spanish film Todo está oscuro by Ana Dies, the following year he participated in El regreso a la nada, in 2001 in Amor atado by Felipe Aljure, in 2003 he worked in the film El carro produced by Dago García, in 2006 he acted in Las cartas del Gordo by Dago García and in Dios los junta y ellos se separan by Harold Trompero. In television he has worked in several series and soap operas, including Así es la vida, Siguiendo el rastro, La sombra del arco iris, Francisco el matemático, Prisioneros del amor, Sabor a limón, Amar y Vivir and De que tamaño es tu amor. He has also been part of the staging of several plays such as: Romeo y Julieta by Farley Velásquez, Impaciencia del corazón by Manolo Orjuela, I took Panamá by Jorge Alí Triana and Manuel Orjuela and Hienas, chacales y otros animales carnívoros by Fabio Rubiano. In El man the national superhero García plays Felipe De Las Aguas, a young cab driver from a humble family who works hard to support his mother, pay his cab and the mortgage on his house. Tired of seeing so many injustices around him, he decides to become a flesh and blood superhero, who with his effort, cunning and empirical justice, helps others with his super power: Faith. "The Man is a guy who has only one power: faith. He is a person who is able to believe above any vicissitude, that it is possible to change the destiny of things if we really feel we can. He is a superhero, like there are hundreds in Colombia, only he is a guy who dared to fight against something that was not right, as everyone should," commented Bernardo García to the Colombian magazine Shock.
Known For
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Loving Pablo
Amparo, a mysterious woman, offers a large payment to quickly cremate a young woman named Lucia. When the funeral home owners refuse, they later discover the body has vanished and, in panic, give Amparo another person’s ashes instead. She pays and leaves, unaware that this mistake will lead the undertakers into the worst trouble of their lives.
Muertos de susto
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In fraganti
Miguel, a successful man, ends up in jail, unjustly accused of money laundering. His sentence completed, with empty pockets and nowhere to go, Miguel returns to his old neighborhood. There, he encounters his childhood friends, who continue playing futsal, never winning a match. Miguel decides to coach them, leading them to victory. On the way, he discovers the unexpected consequences of success.
How to Succeed at Losing
Two childhood friends (Rivera and Mendoza) re-encounter when one of them, a famous soccer player who didn't have time to hang out with the other, gets injured.
Las Cartas Del Gordo
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Los graduados
A mid-class Colombian family get into chaos when it's found out that the "Lord of the house", Benjamín, has been cheating on his wife for 20 years and has another son.
Dios los Junta y Ellos se Separan
Abelardo and his brother Raúl face a dilemma when the match that could qualify Colombia for the World Cup coincides with Laura’s wedding—Abelardo’s daughter, marrying the team’s star player. With a bet on the line and two critical events, they’ll do everything to stick to their plans amidst hilarious situations, until the final whistle decides it all.
The Maximum Penalty 2
When the Velezes agree to buy a used Chevrolet Bel-Air from their neighbors, who've recently won a brand-new car in a school raffle, they're thrilled about the prospect of leaving Bogotá's public transportation system behind. Little do they know that, despite its glossy red exterior, their newfound status symbol is a real lemon. Colombian director Luis Orjuela helms this hilarious look at the pitfalls of automobile ownership.
The Car
Still reeling from the loss of his wife, a grieving man goes to great lengths to see her again. But their reunion comes at a stunning cost.
Time Sweep
Dino González has the appearance of an old-time rocker. He lives in the Chapinero area and works as a hairdresser. As fate would have it, he becomes entangled with a police sergeant who initially sees him as a delinquent and wants to send him to prison, but as time goes by she begins to change her conception of Dino.
Pelucas y rokanrol
Cinema is a historical, social and cultural document that allows us to understand how a society perceives and defines itself. A documentary in which filmmakers, actors, historians and theorists explore Colombian identity through its cinematography.
Memorias de un País Filmado
A writer, seeing how his acclaimed soap opera loses audience to the competition, is pressured by the channel managers, actors, and people.
El Escritor de Telenovelas
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La Fabulosa Historia de Diego Marín
Felipe De Las Aguas is a taxi driver in the capital, which is tired of seeing the injustices that happen around him, for this reason agrees to become "El Man", a superhero in the flesh, that with hard work, shrewdness and empirical justice helps others with their only super power: the faith.
El man
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La Captura
Eduardo is a young upper-class Colombian who is kidnapped by a guerrilla group, and becomes trapped in the middle of the crossfire between the military, paramilitary and guerrilla groups. His outlook on life and his own country, will change radically after the traumatic experience that lives along several months, in which he risks his life in multilple transfers to different camps, as well as armed clashes, along with the extreme loneliness that puts him on the brink of madness.