Synopse
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political message and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasure left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th century v. the present and the search for truth and wisdom form the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentinian director.
Info
Original Title: El escarabajo de oro
International Title: The Gold Bug
Category: Feature
Section: Vitrina
Version & Subtitles: Spanish, English, Swedish OV with English subtitles
Director: Fia-Stina Sandlund, Alejo Moguillansky
Screenplay: Fia-Stina Sandlund, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alejo Moguillansky, Mariano Llinás
Cast/Protagonists: Rafael Spregelburd, Walter Jakob, Luciana Acuna, Agustina Sario, Matthieu Perpoint, Georg Tielmann, Alejo Moguillansky, Mariano Llinás
Production country: Argentina, Sweden, Denmark
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 100 min
Producer: Agustin Gagliardi
Production company: El Pampero Cine, CPH:DOX Copenhagen International
Cinematography: Agustin Mendilaharzu, Cecilia Madorno
Editor: Alejo Moguillansky, Mariano Llinás
Music: Gabriel Chwojnik
Production Design: Agustin Gagliardi, Mariano Llinás, Laura Citarella
World Sales: El Pampero Cine
