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In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.Read moreLess
In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.
The story
In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.
Cast & crew
Marcelo AlonsoCampuzano
Dolores HerediaCalixta
Germán JaramilloValdivieso
Angélica AragónMadame Parodi
Laura AlmelaDoctora Montejo
Gerardo TrejolunaCanudas
Claudette MailléTeresa Ocaña
Fabiana PerzabalGüera Peñaloza
Jorge Antonio GuerreroExplore the crew
- Director
- Guita Schyfter
- Director of Photography
- Sebastián Hiriart
- Writer
- Guita Schyfter
- Writer
- Hugo Hiriart
- Producer
- Guita Schyfter