The Eagle and the Worm

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

M Marcelo AlonsoCampuzano D Dolores HerediaCalixta G Germán JaramilloValdivieso A Angélica AragónMadame Parodi H Horacio CasteloEpazote L Laura AlmelaDoctora Montejo G Gerardo TrejolunaCanudas C Claudette MailléTeresa Ocaña A Alan AlarcónBolos F Fabiana PerzabalGüera Peñaloza J Jorge Antonio Guerrero M Maria Espinoza StranskyClemencia

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G Gilberto Barraza M Mahoalli NassourouAgatha M Mardonio Carballo R Roberto Duarte Á Álvaro Guerrero E Ernesto Laguardia S Selma Beraud J Jaime Feinzaig V Victor Chamboir W William Chan Kin Yuk