Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Marcelo Alonso

Campuzano

Dolores Heredia

Calixta

Germán Jaramillo

Valdivieso

Angélica Aragón

Madame Parodi

Laura Almela

Doctora Montejo

Gerardo Trejoluna

Canudas

Claudette Maillé

Teresa Ocaña

Fabiana Perzabal

Güera Peñaloza

Jorge Antonio Guerrero

Gilberto Barraza

Álvaro Guerrero

Ernesto Laguardia