# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mauricio-walerstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:30.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mauricio-walerstein"
name: "Mauricio Walerstein"
slug: "mauricio-walerstein"
description: "Mauricio Walerstein was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer who spent much of his career in Venezuela. He directed 17 films between 1971 and 2014. His 1973 film Cuando quiero llorar no lloro, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva, was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. His father was Mexican film producer and screenwriter Gregorio Walerstein."
tagline: "Venezuelan Mexican-born Film director, screenwriter, film producer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-03-29"
deathDate: "2016-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.809288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909099/"
    handle:    "nm0909099"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "موریسیو والرسٹین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ماوريسيو واليرستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Walerstein"
    title: "Mauricio Walerstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Walerstein"
    title: "Mauricio Walerstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Walerstein"
    title: "Mauricio Walerstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Walerstein"
    title: "Mauricio Walerstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Walerstein"
    title: "Mauricio Walerstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Walerstein"
    title: "Mauricio Walerstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2510630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump