'The deserter') is a 2015 Venezuelan film directed by Raúl Chamorro.

The film focuses on a conscript that decides to desert from the army.

Set in the Andes region of Venezuela in the 1960s and 1970s,[1] a young peasant, Julian, is forcibly recruited into the army, where he suffers mistreatment and abuse and takes the decision to desert.

[1] The filming took place in the town of Jajó, Trujillo state, in the Urdaneta municipality.

[1] At its release, the film was screened in at least forty cinemas across different cities in Venezuela.